Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:57PM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> > We do have the regex-literals egg... Do you propose adding that to
> > core Chicken?
> 
> I wasn't proposing adding anything :)
> 
> If Chicken switches to irregex, then we can just use SREs
> and be rid of the ugliness of regex syntax forever.

OK, so why are we having this discussion? ;)

It would be sad to see a new feature like this added to Chicken
just to see the cause for its introduction disappear a few
weeks/months later.

Cheers,
Peter
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