[draft] New std.regex walkthrough

Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 14:08:35 PDT 2012


On 14.03.2012 0:54, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:27:57PM +0400, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> For a couple of releases we have a new revamped std.regex, that as
>> far as I'm concerned works nicely, thanks to my GSOC commitment last
>> summer. Yet there was certain dark trend around std.regex/std.regexp
>> as both had severe bugs, missing documentation and what not, enough
>> to consider them unusable or dismiss prematurely.
>>
>> It's about time to break this gloomy aura, and show that std.regex
>> is actually easy to use, that it does the thing and has some nice
>> extras.
>>
>> Link: http://blackwhale.github.com/regular-expression.html
>>
>> Comments are welcome from experts and newbies alike, in fact it
>> should encourage people to try out a few tricks ;)
> [...]
>
> Yay! Updated docs is always a good thing. I'd like to do some
> copy-editing to make it nicer to read. (Hope you don't mind my extensive
> revisions, I'm trying to make the docs as professional as possible.)
> My revisions are in straight text under the quoted sections, and inline
> comments are enclosed in [].
>

Thanks, I'm concerned with "make it nicer to read" part ;)

[... a bunch of good stuff to work through  later on ...]

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky


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