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Re: regex.c simplification
From: |
Perry E. Metzger |
Subject: |
Re: regex.c simplification |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:24:02 -0400 |
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:55:42 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:42:37 -0700
> > From: "Daniel Colascione" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> >
> > > The emacs regex code is hardly state of the art. I would
> > > suggest that there are many other, better, free software
> > > implementations of regexes.
> >
> > There are. Unfortunately, none of them understand predicates like
> > \= and \s|.
>
> Right. And there are a few more features important to Emacs that
> other implementations don't support.
>
> So, while I think modernizing our regex code would be a welcome
> development, we shouldn't mislead ourselves into thinking that any
> other implementation could be a drop-in replacement. Some work will
> be needed to add the features we expect.
>
I was arguing in the opposite direction, that there isn't much point
in thinking others will be interested in using the Emacs regex code
in the future.
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Perry E. Metzger address@hidden
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