[GSOC] regular expressions beta is here

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-10 12:42, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> In case I failed to mention it before, I m working on the project
> codenamed FReD that is aimed at ~100%* source level compatible overhaul
> of std.regex, that uses better implementation techniques, provides
> modern Unicode support and common syntax riches.
>
> I think it's time for a public beta release, since it _should_ be ready
> for mainstream usage. There are some rough edges, and a couple issues
> that I'm aware of but they are nowhere in realistic use cases.
>
> In order to avoid unexpected regressions I'd be glad if current
> std.regex users do try it for their projects/tests.
> To get a small no-crap-included beta package see download section of
> https://github.com/blackwhale/FReD for .7zs.
> I'll upload newer packages as bugs get exposed and fixed. Alternatively,
> if you a comfortable with git you may just git clone entire repo. Some
> helpful notes (same as README) can be found here :
> https://github.com/blackwhale/FReD/wiki/Beta-release
>
> Caveats:
> In order for it compile a tiny change to 2.054 source is needed (no need
> to recompile Phobos! it's only in templates):
> patch std.algorithm.cmp according to this diff
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/176/files#L0L4631
> <https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/176/files#L0L4633>
> and to get CTFE features working add if(!__ctfe) listed in the next diff
> on the same webpage.
> (this is already upstream, so if you're using a fork of phobos just pull
> this in)
>
> * some API problems might lead to a breaking change, though it didn't
> happen in this release

I have a suggestion, make RegexMatch implicitly convertible to bool, 
indicating if there was a match or not.

Aren't there a lot of things that should be declared as private in the 
fred.d module?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg