earthquake changes of std.regexp to come

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Feb 20 02:24:35 PST 2009


Bill Baxter wrote:
> Maybe "design" is too strong a word.  Most Phobos modules seem to have
> been put together rather hastily in order to fill a pressing need.
> Often *something* is better than nothing at all, even if the something
> is not so great.

std.regexp evolved out of the ECMAscript regex functions - they have the 
same names and functionality. Layered on top of that was ruby-like names 
and functionality. It's a good (bad?) example of an api evolving without 
sacrificing backwards compatibility.



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