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Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split
From: |
Eli Barzilay |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:21:10 -0500 |
Just now, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> On 31 December 2011 10:32, Eli Barzilay <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 40 minutes ago, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> >>
> >> I think Racket does the right thing by keeping *all* the empty
> >> strings in place.
> >
> > Well, I do think that Perl (as well as other libraries &
> > languages) are a good reference point to compare against... If
> > anything, you should at least be aware of other design choices and
> > why you went in a different direction. (And we did not follow
> > perl in all aspects, as those tests clarify.)
>
> A good point. I'm interested to find out the reasoning behind
> Perl's decision to drop empty strings.. Seems a strange thing to do
> IMO.
I think that there's a general tendency to make things "nice" and
dropping these things for cases where what the user wants is
"obvious". And then when you realize that making the function behave
differently sometimes is a bad idea, but you can't back off from the
earlier version without breaking a ton of code. In any case, look
also at the Emacs solution of an optional argument to drop all empty
strings, with a weird behavior when no regexp is given...
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- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Marijn, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Nala Ginrut, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Marijn, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Nala Ginrut, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Marijn, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Daniel Hartwig, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Daniel Hartwig, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Eli Barzilay, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Daniel Hartwig, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split,
Eli Barzilay <=
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Daniel Hartwig, 2011/12/30
- Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Eli Barzilay, 2011/12/31
Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Neil Jerram, 2011/12/30
Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split, Daniel Hartwig, 2011/12/30