Re: [Maxima-discuss] regex packages, was: Reading data from header

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> On 2015-10-27, Volker van Nek <vol...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > I would like to propose the following. We leave nregex in src and pregexp
> > in share/stringproc and I will modify the Maxima level functions in
> > share/stringproc in a way that the user can decide which scanner he or
> she
> > wants to use. E.g.
>
> I dunno, I'm opposed to making both nregex and pregexp available to
> users. I think the confusion and effort involved outweigh the benefit of
> it. At this point my recommendation is to move pregexp into src so that
> it is compiled at least.
>

​I don't find that to be a problem.  I use grep and egrep and emacs regexp
all the time.  I also suspect that nregex probably supports enough for most
people and is fast very fast for those cases. For those requiring more,
they can specify pregexp.

Of course, there's also the quip about deciding to use regexp and then
suddenly having one more problem. :-)

And there's nothing preventing stringproc to compile up the code.  After
all, lbfgs and lapack run compiled, not interpreted. ​


>
> I think it's reasonable to move the rest of stringproc into src as well
> but that is a separate issue.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
>
>
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Ray