Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings

[Tobia Conforto]

Alex Shinn wrote:
> If Chicken switches to irregex, then we can just use SREs and be rid  
> of the ugliness of regex syntax forever.

It does look more "scalable" a syntax, if not less ugly...

        (word (+ (| alphanum (".-_%")))
              "@"
              (+ (| alphanum (".-")))
              "."
              (** 2 4 alpha))

vs.

        /address@hidden,4}\b/


A few months ago, Felix wrote:
> using irregex is really an option, but both performance and  
> stability has to be evaluated thoroughly before committing to such a  
> decision.


Has anybody made a stability, correctness and performance comparison  
of irregex-on-Chicken versus other implementations yet?  I can do  
that, if there's a need.


Tobia

PS: Forgive me an OT question.  I've just switched to a Gmail account,  
but still I use a standalone mail client.  Does anybody know how to  
get one's own posts to mailing lists back as incoming mail?