DMD 0.169 release

Don Clugston dac at nospam.com.au
Fri Oct 13 04:26:57 PDT 2006


Walter Bright wrote:
> 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>.

Awesome! I hoped that was it. We could have an Easter Egg competition -- 
find the coolest thing in D, that isn't documented. <g>
A memorable previous entry was the simplified function template syntax.



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