[GSOC] regular expressions beta is here

[Jacob Carlborg]

> Interesting idea, one problem with it is that I want this:
>
> auto m = match("bleh", "bleh");
> writeln(m);
>
> to actually print "bleh", not true
> Right now due to a carry over bug from std.regex (interface thing)
> writln(m) will just do a stackoverflow, m.hit however works.

No, that won't be any problem:

struct Foo
{
     bool b;
     alias b this;
}

auto f = Foo();
static assert(is(typeof(f) == Foo));

The above assert passes as expected.

>> Aren't there a lot of things that should be declared as private in the
>> fred.d module?
>>
>
> Yes, it's a side effect of me having a lot of debugging tool that do
> need these internals. If only package protection attribute of something
> was working....
> Not to mention that the whole module should work in SafeD with a couple
> of @trusted here and there.

Ok, I see.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg