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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 37659@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 07:24:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21a930b7-dd91-4c8a-b282-2e7675061344@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <015233FF-2F66-4150-A6B3-A21AB2147CC8@acm.org>

> > Is there an identifiable subset of rx features
> > (operators, functions, thingies, or whatever
> > its composable pieces are called) that map
> > (even if not one-to-one) to regexp syntax
> > components?
> 
> Almost all of rx maps one-to-one to the string regexp syntax. The rx
> docs mention the corresponding string regexps for most forms.
> 
> In addition, rx is self-explaining in the sense that a user curious
> about what a particular expression means needs only to evaluate (rx
> SOMETHING) to get the translation. (There are external packages for
> going in the other direction.)

Yes, I knew the last part - rx returns a regexp
(which you can examine).

My suggestion was really about documenting the
correspondence between individual rx components
and regexp components.  If that's already done,
great.  Thx.







  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-24 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-08  9:36 bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-09  8:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-11 23:07 ` bug#37659: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> Paul Eggert
2019-10-12 10:47   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-13 16:52     ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-13 19:48       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-22 15:14       ` bug#37659: rx additions: anychar, unmatchable, unordered-or Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-22 15:27         ` Robert Pluim
2019-10-22 17:33         ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-23  9:15           ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-23 23:14             ` Paul Eggert
2019-10-24  1:56               ` Drew Adams
2019-10-24  9:09                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-24 14:24                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-10-24  9:17                 ` Phil Sainty
2019-10-24 14:32                   ` Drew Adams
2019-10-24  8:58               ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-10-27 11:53                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-02-11 12:57           ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-02-11 15:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-11 19:17               ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-02-12  0:52                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-12 11:22                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-02-13 18:38                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-02-13 18:50                       ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-13 19:16                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-02-13 19:30                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-13 22:23                             ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-02-14  7:45                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-14 16:15                                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-14 20:49                                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-03-01 10:09                                   ` Mattias Engdegård

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