From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Uhl Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions Date: 28 Apr 2003 18:45:01 -0600 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <877k9eobcv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051577201 10960 80.91.224.249 (29 Apr 2003 00:46:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 02:46:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AJGa-0002qe-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:46:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AJGq-0005B6-00 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AJFo-0004Ab-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AJFO-000423-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.7.170.6] (helo=latakia.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AJF5-00034P-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: (from ruhl@localhost) by latakia.dyndns.org (8.11.6/linuxconf) id h3T0j1a23157; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:45:01 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: latakia.dyndns.org: ruhl set sender to ruhl@4dv.net using -f Original-To: guile-user@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <877k9eobcv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:1867 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1867 Rob Browning writes: > > In the end, I'd just like to have a powerful regex lib whose syntax > and behavior is invariant across all the platforms on which I'm likely > to run guile. That's useful for some things (when the developer writes the regexps), but for others it's not so good, e.g. when the _user_ writes the regexps. The user probably wants whatever he's locally used to... And then, of course, there's the issue of speed. Regexps are used for enough processing that IMHO they must be matched by compiled, not interpreted, code or they risk being unacceptably slow. Of course, this matter less for some domains than others:-) -- Robert Uhl Let the heavens be glad as is meet, and let the earth rejoice; and let the whole world, visible and invisible, keep festival, for Christ, the eternal gladness, is risen. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user