At 05:07 PM 11/22/00 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:02:16AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Dan:
> > > This strikes me as an excellent candidate for a custom scalar type. I
> like
> > > the idea, and it could be really useful in some circumstances, but
> I'd not
> > > want to burden the default scalar with the code for this.
> >
> > Agreed.
>
>How does the regexp replacement engine cope with this? By implementing
>all replacements as substr() type ops?
By punting really, *really* hard and using a lot of handwaving at this
point. :)
You're likely right that a series of substituting substr() calls will be
the end result, but that's OK.
Dan
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