[GSOC] regular expressions beta is here

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 10.08.2011 18:54, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> 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.
That may be all well, but  try writeln on it, what will it print?
After some experience with alias this I had to conclude that it's rather 
blunt tool, and I'd rather stay away of it.
Actually I like Steven's opCast suggestion, so that it works in 
conditionals.

>
>>> 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.
>


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Dmitry Olshansky