Re: bug#12665: regexp fault for closing square bracket within character class

[Marijn <hkBst@gentoo.org>]

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On 18-10-12 11:44, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote:
>> As documented in "Syntax of Regular Expressions" of the Emacs
>> manual (to which section 6.15 of the Guile manual refers):
>> 
>> To include a `]' in a character set, you must make it the first 
>> character.  For example, `[]a]' matches `]' or `a'.  To include
>> a `-', write `-' as the first or last character of the set, or
>> put it after a range.  Thus, `[]-]' matches both `]' and `-'.
> 
> OK, I see. I guess I got used to PCRE for too long :) Sorry for my
> mistake.

``Regular expressions crammed into string-syntax'' really needs to be
deprecated in Scheme implementations. SRE[1][2] is more expressive and
doesn't suffer from such exceptions.

Marijn

[1]:http://sjamaan.ath.cx/posts/lispy-dsl-sre.html
[2]:http://www.scsh.net/docu/post/sre.html
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