From: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex.c simplification
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:42:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bf73ca6846a2a0ee25e81d7ec8faf17.squirrel@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180616123549.3203b454@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:35:34 -0700 "Daniel Colascione"
> <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
>> I was doing some work on regex.c just now, and I was frustrated
>> that the code is unnecessarily complicated by the ifdefs necessary
>> to support some theoretical non-Emacs use case. Is all of this
>> complexity really necessary? Are we sure the !emacs case even
>> compiles? Are there non-Emacs users of the Emacs regex code? Can we
>> just fork the implementation? How about baking in switches like
>> MATCH_MAY_ALLOCATE?
>
> The emacs regex code is hardly state of the art. I would suggest that
> there are many other, better, free software implementations of
> regexes.
There are. Unfortunately, none of them understand predicates like \= and \s|.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-16 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-16 15:35 regex.c simplification Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 16:11 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 16:17 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 18:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-16 19:27 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-17 16:50 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-06-18 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-17 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-20 0:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-20 0:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-20 1:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-20 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 21:49 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-21 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-21 7:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-01 0:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-01 2:38 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-20 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 16:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-06-16 16:43 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 16:09 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-16 16:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 16:42 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2018-06-16 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 18:24 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-16 18:58 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-16 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-18 9:36 ` Robert Pluim
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