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Implementing Emacs in Scheme is a use case for this. On Nov 26, 2013 11:17 AM, "Michael Montague" <mikemon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/26/2013 10:24 AM, John Cowan wrote: > >> Michael Montague scripsit: >> >> I don't think that these are strong arguments for having >>> 'valid-sre?'. An implementation for which compiling is expensive, >>> could easily internally do the "is it valid"-type check before >>> compiling. Having it in the interface adds no functionality that is >>> not already easily available. >>> >> It tells the compiler only to syntax-check and not go on to actually >> compile. This is a very common feature in compilers: for example, >> in gcc the -fsyntax-only option activates this mode. Sometimes >> all you want to know at present is whether something is syntactically >> valid. >> >> > The only use case for 'valid-sre?' mentioned so far is Peter's interactive > regular expression IDE. The C standard does not require the -fsyntax-only > option. These do not seem like compelling arguments for including > 'valid-sre?'.