DMD 0.148 - regular expressions

[Walter Bright]

"Trevor Parscal" <Trevor_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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> I think the addition and than removal was pretty odd.. I was just about to
> rewrite some code using the match operator - but I am glad I diddn't.
>
> But you know - as much as we all demand features and get mad when they 
> aren't
> included, it was nice to see a feature get included. But now it gets taken 
> away
> so quickly, I don't know what will be taken out next.. :)

I wouldn't have removed it, but adding the declarations to the if statement, 
and the implicit typing to the foreach, made the match expression's 
incremental convenience pretty minor. Lest D become a bag of cruft, new 
operators need to offer a *big* improvement in convenience.

> Please don't remove dynamic arrays walter!

Fat chance of that!