Re: [Chicken-users] grep should use string-search?

[Alejandro Forero Cuervo]

> > That's reasonable. Especially since string-search is the same
> > as string-match "^...$".
>
> The other way around, OF COURSE!

Exactly.  One can get any of the two possible behaviours by using
"^expr$" or  ".*expr.*", regardless  of whether  string-search or
string-match is used; however, a default of "string-search" would
be more consistent with what "grep" usually does.

I'll   have  the   stream-grep  routine   to  use   string-search
then.

By the way,  expect interesting additions to  stream-ext (such as
iterator->stream, allowing

  (define (list->stream l)
    (iterator->stream
      (lambda (collect stop)
        (for-each collect l)))) ,

with-output-to-stream  and   with-input-from-stream  [of  chars],
etc.). :)

Alejo.
http://bachue.com/alejo

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