earthquake changes of std.regexp to come

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

s/good \(bad\?\)/REALLY BAD/


Andrei