Re: [Chicken-users] "raw" strings

[Alex Shinn]

Tobia Conforto <address@hidden> writes:

> Alex Shinn wrote:
>> If Chicken switches to irregex, then we can just use SREs and be rid
>> of the ugliness of regex syntax forever.
>
> It does look more "scalable" a syntax, if not less ugly...
>
>       (word (+ (| alphanum (".-_%")))
>             "@"
>             (+ (| alphanum (".-")))
>             "."
>             (** 2 4 alpha))
>
> vs.
>
>       /address@hidden,4}\b/

Actually, for that particular regexp (or what is intended by
it) the development version of irregex has a shorter form:

        email

-- 
Alex