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From: "Chris K. Jester-Young" <cky944@gmail.com>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regexp-split for Guile
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:23:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121021192305.GC25831@yarrow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN3veRcpHN4-WBGyK+bUuCNkeO+oumgvFA1X+mKkY5vYXvdwNA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:20:09PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> Yes.  Keep it simple.  Operations like trim-whitespace and
> drop-empty-strings-from-the-result (mentioned in the previous
> discussion) are so easy to do outside of regexp-split, why complicate
> the semantics?

"So easy", but so verbose. We should prefer to make common use cases
easy (and succinct) to use, and not optimise for uncommon ones.

Anyway, in my response to Mark, I mentioned that if we can get
drop-right-while in-tree, we have a middle ground that should make
"everyone" happy. I am against requiring users of regexp-split to
reinvent that wheel each time. Leave the reinvention to Phil Bewig.[1]

Cheers,
Chris.

[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2009-05/msg00024.html
    "I never use SRFI-1. My personal standard library has take, drop,
     take-while, drop-while, range, iterate, filter, zip, [...]"



  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-21 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-17 14:01 regexp-split for Guile Chris K. Jester-Young
2012-09-17 19:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-09-17 20:06   ` Chris K. Jester-Young
2012-09-18  7:06     ` Sjoerd van Leent Privé
2012-09-18 19:31       ` Chris K. Jester-Young
2012-09-18 19:59     ` Chris K. Jester-Young
2012-10-07  2:38       ` Daniel Hartwig
2012-10-12 21:57         ` Mark H Weaver
2012-10-20  4:01           ` Chris K. Jester-Young
2012-10-20 13:27             ` Mark H Weaver
2012-10-20 14:16               ` Mark H Weaver
2012-10-21  8:20                 ` Daniel Hartwig
2012-10-21 19:23                   ` Chris K. Jester-Young [this message]
2012-10-21 16:08                 ` Chris K. Jester-Young
2012-09-18 12:59 ` nalaginrut
2012-09-18 19:55   ` Chris K. Jester-Young
2012-09-19  0:30     ` nalaginrut
2012-10-04 21:47 ` Ludovic Courtès

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