Re: [q-lang-users] [qlist] Re: Suggestions on how to debug?

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Andrew Berg wrote:
> I would like to see it fixed in the next version.

It's already on my TODO list for 7.7.

> Also, would you be receptive to the idea of
> switching to PCRE for your regular expression library?

That sounds like a good idea. There hasn't been a new GNU regex version
since 1993. PCRE has Unicode support and also provides a set of POSIXish
wrapper functions so it shouldn't be a big deal to just replace one with
the other without breaking the interface. And, as John pointed out it's
pretty standard these days. It's on the 7.7 TODO list now.

While I'm at it, I'd also like to remove the bundled readline from the
core package. The bundled version is fairly old, pre-Unicode, and
readline seems to be readily available on just about any platform these
days anyway.

> I'll admit that my eyes glazed over a bit while reading the long lists
> of supplied functions in the documentation.

Yes, last time I counted there were already well over 700 builtin and
standard library functions, and that doesn't even include the extension
modules not in the prelude. "Batteries included" indeed. ;-)

Albert

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