11 Jul
2010
11 Jul
'10
8:49 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:37:22 pm Eric Smith wrote:
re2 comparison is interesting from the point of if it should be included in stdlib.
Is "it" re2 or regex? I don't see having 2 regular expression engines in the stdlib.
There's precedence though... the old regex engine and the new re engine were side-by-side for many years before regex was deprecated and finally removed in 2.5. Hypothetically, re2 could similarly be added to the standard library while re is deprecated.
While I realize I'm not the target audience for this, there are a lot of things I'd like to see more in the stdlib than a second re engine. Geremy Condra