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

[Felix]

From: Jim Ursetto <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Using irregex safely & responsibly [Was: Re: 
dev-snapshot 4.6.3]
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:00:05 -0500

> Why can't the compatibility code be included in the new irregex unit?
> In other words, the old procedure names and behavior could be
> deprecated but left in so that 1) we don't have to add a blob of
> compatibility code to every egg, and 2) eggs using the old irregex API
> would be compatible with all Chicken versions without rebuilding.
> It's not very nice to the end-user to just remove procedures without
> going through a deprecation phase.

That's a good idea. This code could be added to irregex.scm without
touching irregex-core.scm (the upstream code).


cheers,
felix