Regex in ctfe?

[Pierre Krafft via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 12:47:26 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> Unless I'm mistaken, I think the compiler for regex currently 
> works at compile time, but not the matcher. Maybe someone who 
> knows the module could add support for that.

That's correct. I looked in to this a while ago and found out 
that the matcher uses @trusted code with pointers. Getting 
support for ctfe would require a rewrite of most of the matching 
engine and would probably result in a rather big performance hit.