Re: [Chicken-users] regex to be actively deprecated some day?

Matt, In fact, there might be a bug in the \1 substitution mechanism, so it is not a bad idea to use the irregex-style replacement anyway, even if you are sticking with POSIX REs. I noticed this a few days ago when attempting to escape characters using a backslash. On the other hand, I could

Re: [Chicken-users] regex to be actively deprecated some day?

Well, shoot. Other fearless Chickeneers already noticed this bug and marked it as invalid in (http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1189#comment:2 ) due to order of operations. Basically, in “1” the backslash is itself backslashed, so it becomes the