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.
next prev parent 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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