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bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 07:24:01 -0700 (PDT) |
> > Is there an identifiable subset of rx features
> > (operators, functions, thingies, or whatever
> > its composable pieces are called) that map
> > (even if not one-to-one) to regexp syntax
> > components?
>
> Almost all of rx maps one-to-one to the string regexp syntax. The rx
> docs mention the corresponding string regexps for most forms.
>
> In addition, rx is self-explaining in the sense that a user curious
> about what a particular expression means needs only to evaluate (rx
> SOMETHING) to get the translation. (There are external packages for
> going in the other direction.)
Yes, I knew the last part - rx returns a regexp
(which you can examine).
My suggestion was really about documenting the
correspondence between individual rx components
and regexp components. If that's already done,
great. Thx.
- bug#37659: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, (continued)
- bug#37659: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/10/12
- bug#37659: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, Paul Eggert, 2019/10/13
- bug#37659: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/10/13
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/10/22
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Robert Pluim, 2019/10/22
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Paul Eggert, 2019/10/22
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/10/23
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Paul Eggert, 2019/10/23
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Drew Adams, 2019/10/23
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/10/24
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Phil Sainty, 2019/10/24
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Drew Adams, 2019/10/24
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/10/24
- bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/10/27