earthquake changes of std.regexp to come

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Feb 17 14:46:16 PST 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I was thinking of moving older stuff to etc, is that ok?
> 
> Yes. But you should also rename the new one, perhaps to std.regex. That 
> way, legacy code will refuse to compile, rather than compile wrongly.

Terrific. I prefer "regex" to "regexp" because it's easier to pronounce, 
particularly if you're a foreigner. "Regex" sounds like a frog utterance 
by a forest lake, "regexp" sounds like nothing in particular.

Andrei



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