DIP 50 - AST macros

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-13 00:26, Walter Bright wrote:

> It is limiting, but I don't know about extremely limiting. Eric
> Anderton's regex engine didn't need them. And, if you really do need
> them, you can always define the templates as regular names:
>
>     lessThan(a,b)
>     equals(a,b)
>
> etc. Not the greatest, but not unworkable.

I don't know what's so special about the regex engine. It takes a regex 
as a string and matches that against another string. Seems to be just 
like any other regular expression library I've used.

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/Jacob Carlborg