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Re: [Chicken-users] Syntactic sugar for regular expressions and URIs


From: Zbigniew
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Syntactic sugar for regular expressions and URIs
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:33:05 -0500

Hi Arto--I wouldn't be overly concerned about nested delimiters; I've
never had need for them, speaking as a very heavy Perl user, and I
wonder if anyone else has.  You can always just select another
delimiter.  This is one of those features that Perl has, I think, just
because it's Perl.

On 6/27/07, Arto Bendiken <address@hidden> wrote:
Jim,

On 6/27/07, Zbigniew <address@hidden> wrote:

> The drawback over Perl is that nestable delimiters don't nest

Yes. This means there are still two more features this egg could use
in order to be "perfect" (i.e. on par with Perl's and Ruby's regex
literals):

  2. Support for nestable generalized delimiters, by keeping track of
how many of the opening delimiters have been encountered.




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