[Chicken-janitors] Re: #281: promote irregex to full unit

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#281: promote irregex to full unit
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 Reporter:  zbigniew                                                   |       
Owner:       
     Type:  enhancement                                                |      
Status:  new  
 Priority:  minor                                                      |   
Milestone:  4.6.0
Component:  core libraries                                             |     
Version:  4.5.x
 Keywords:  regex irregex movin-on-up to-the-east-side deluxe-apt sky  |  
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Comment(by sjamaan):

 Actually, I much prefer the irregex API over the original one. Mostly
 because it offers SRE syntax which is vastly superior to string-based
 regexes (though I understand the regex unit now also accepts those?), and
 the irregex API offers complete access to all those features (like for
 example named submatches and working with "match" objects; I'm not sure if
 the "regex" API has a way to allow access to that).

 Finally, I think using irregex directly could help to make code more
 portable (as irregex seems to work on a shitload of Schemes)

 For these reasons I'd really like to see Jim's patch accepted. It would
 not make a difference for those using the regex API, but it would make
 life easier for those of us who prefer to use irregex directly.

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