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Re: [Chicken-users] Using irregex safely & responsibly [Was: Re: dev-sna


From: Peter Bex
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Using irregex safely & responsibly [Was: Re: dev-snapshot 4.6.3]
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:09:53 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:05:10AM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:37:59PM -0500, Jim Ursetto wrote:
> > Does this mean for every egg that uses the irregex API directly, I
> > need to insert this [cond-expand] blob of code?
> 
> You have three options:
> - Add a dependency on the regex egg and keep doing
>    (require-library regex)(import irregex) like before

That's not quite true; some of the compatibility code is still necessary
to make up for the changes in the API.

Cheers,
Peter
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