What library functionality would you most like to see in D?

Graham Fawcett fawcett at uwindsor.ca
Thu Aug 4 09:42:56 PDT 2011


On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:50:18 +0000, Mehrdad wrote:

> More powerful regexes (like in .NET).
> 
> The current one is pretty much unusable due to lack of support for
> Unicode, and lacks lots of important features (named captures come to
> mind).

Just a thought -- libpcre is a very popular RE library, available under 
BSD. It has UTF-8 support, though not support for other Unicode encodings. 
Google's pcrecpp wrapper might be a source of inspiration. Would a PCRE 
wrapper be suitable for Phobos? 

Graham


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