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

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?

Matt Welland scripsit: > Ok, I sort of panicked when I saw what looked like regex being deprecated > (read my original message below if you wish). After re-reading the irregex > egg wiki page a few times it looks like all is well assuming these two > things: There is no intention of deprecating t

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

Ok, I sort of panicked when I saw what looked like regex being deprecated (read my original message below if you wish). After re-reading the irregex egg wiki page a few times it looks like all is well assuming these two things: 1. irregex unit will continue to support reading the pcre syntax 2. th