Re: [WIP][PATCH 2/2] pkl,pvm: add support for regular expression

[Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:01:01AM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> 

> I don't think it is a good idea to expose the regexp machinery in std
> like this.
> 
> I thought we were targetting adding support for STRING ~ REGEXP at the
> language level?  The compiler can then generate calls to _pkl_re_gmatch
> and DTRT...
> 

Yes, I wanted to enable us to use regexp for problems we already have
sooner.
Because we have to think about the struct patterns as a general mechanism
and rushing to implementing regexp at language level can cause problems
for us.