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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:46:28AM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote: > IrRegex has quite a lot more users. It's the builtin regexp > engine for Chicken, and is used in a number of other > implementations. It's harder to say how many people just > use it for PCRE-style regexps, and how many actively > use the SRE notation. I much prefer the SRE notation, and use => in some cases. However, I see the SRFI as a distinct process, "inspired" by Irregex. Perhaps with some "lessons learned", so I wouldn't oppose a change, but only if it's well-motivated. > But we can still consider changing it. I had written <- > thinking of a syntax: > > name <- pat > > without any parens (you'd need an explicit (: ...) wrapper > in some cases), but this complicates parsing and there > are many advantages to sticking to a pure prefix notation. > So better would be > > (-> name pat ...) Yeah, the former example would break with Polish notation as is tradition in Scheme, and simplicitly. I think -> would be snaner, but given that it's so similar to =>, I don't see the advantage in switching. Cheers, Peter -- http://www.more-magic.net