DMD 0.169 release

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Fri Oct 13 00:54:59 PDT 2006


Don Clugston wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> std.regexp has been around for 6+ years. It comes from one I did in 
>> C++ that was very intensively tested. I think it has held up very 
>> well. The only thing it lacks is being thoroughly tested for UTF. I 
>> don't think that's justification for starting over with something else.
> 
> Can you clear up a mystery about it? From looking at the code, it looks 
> as though it can do lazy matching (references to REnmq, "minimal munch", 
> and parsing of *?, +?, etc), and it's passed the simple tests I've tried 
> on it. But it's not documented! So is the lazy matching:
> (a) working, but not documented, or
> (b) unfinished and buggy?

(a) lazy documentation <g>.



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