[Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: regeps (repost)

[Jesse G. <je...@wi...>]

Richard Jones wrote:

> (Repost: original was apparently tagged as sp*m).
> 
> Not really sure I understand it from a user's point of view.
> 
> For me what really matters is that I could write something like:
> 
>   if string =~ /(a+)(b*)/ then ...
> 
> The regular expression (Perl-compatible, please!) ought to be compiled
> and checked at compile time, and the compiler should handle caching
> compiled expressions containing variables.

That would certainly be nice. To your knowledge, has this been discussed
on the INRIA list? What did they say?

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