DMD 0.148 - regular expressions

[Trevor Parscal]

In article <dtsjs6$1lp0$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Dave says...
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>In article <dts47r$14c0$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Lars Ivar Igesund says...
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>>Walter Bright wrote:
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>>> The match expressions are gone. Based on the feedback, people didn't want
>>> D to adopt perl'ish notation or implicitly defined variables. Instead,
>>> foreach statements now allow implicit typing of the key/value
>>> declarations, and the if statement now can declare a variable for the
>>> result (an adaptation of Ben Hinkle's idea).
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>>I liked the idea (match expressions), just not the operator, and I thought
>>that was a common opinion...
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>So did I (but the operators didn't bother me). I was surprised to see the
>'built-in' behaviour removed. From my understanding, it wasn't terribly
>complicated to implement and there wasn't any overhead unless it was used. There
>really wasn't any 'perl'ish notation' to speak of, and the recent addition of if
>statement result variables would have taken care of the implicitly defined
>variable issue.
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>I think it was a mistake to remove the built-in's. Now I bet they're gone for
>good. Arrrgh. I think D would better appeal to a large segment of developers
>(using scripting languages like Perl) with the built-in regex match
>functionality. 
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>IIRC, most of the posts liked the built-in idea but took issue with a few of the
>details. We've gone from talk about how the compiler can optimize matching
>behaviour to removing the built-in's entirely. I don't get it..
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>- Dave
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I think the addition and than removal was pretty odd.. I was just about to
rewrite some code using the match operator - but I am glad I diddn't.

But you know - as much as we all demand features and get mad when they aren't
included, it was nice to see a feature get included. But now it gets taken away
so quickly, I don't know what will be taken out next.. :)

Please don't remove dynamic arrays walter!

Just kidding - we all love you!

Thanks,
Trevor Parscal