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Michael Montague scripsit:
> Briefly looking through the first 16 or so implementations listed on
> http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/SchemeImplementationReleases, it
> appeared to me that only Chicken and Chibi provide SRE regular
> expressions.
And scsh, which is where SREs were born. That page is out of date;
I'm in process of updating it.
> This SRFI is going to break people's code no matter how it comes
> out, particularly if it becomes part of R7RS-large.
Nothing prevents people from using, or R7RS-large from supplying,
non-SRE libraries. That's not equivalent to breaking SREs.
(I'm not very concerned about breaking the names of procedures,
because those can be renamed by the R6RS/R7RS module system.)
> My opinion: SREs are a mutant love child of Scheme and Perl. To
> understand them you need to understand Scheme and PCREs. You need to
> remember what a bunch of characters like *+?= mean. Not fun. Too
> much PCREs and not enough Scheme.
That's why we are adding, at your request, English names for all the
SRE patterns.
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