Would there be interest in a SERIOUS compile-time regex parser?

[Bill Baxter]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>> 2) When I show the current one to people, as opposed to Eric Niebler's 
>> C++ one, the response is "but the D one is just a toy" with the 
>> implication that D is just a toy.
> 
> <raise eyebrows> I wonder if anyone is actually using the C++ regexp in 
> production code? Personally I get the feeling that so much of boost is 
> extremely clever, but not terribly practical.

That's certainly been my experience with boost.  It's hit-or-miss. 
shared_ptr stuff -- great.  functional and serialization -- clever, but 
ultimately a big waste of my time.  It's easier to write the dang ugly 
for loop than to figure out the right incantation of _1's and _2's and 
binders to get functional::map working.  I really wish boost had some 
sort of feedback form at the bottom of every page so people could rate 
the packages and make comments.  Kind of like the MathWorks site for 
user-contributed Matlab code.  Could be a good thing for D-source too.

--bb