Regex in ctfe?

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 at 21:09:19 UTC, Era Scarecrow 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 at 20:25:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Currently, AFAIK, (d)dmd does not use anything from Phobos. 
>> I'm not sure if this is a temporary situation, or there's a 
>> strong reason for it.
>
>  Probably since it was so recently changed from C++ to D that 
> it just hasn't tried to include anything. And leaving the two 
> projects (library and compiler) separate does allow a certain 
> level of purity.

This was a deliberate decision to avoid creating circular 
dependencies between the compiler and Phobos, which are arguably 
too tightly coupled already. (I remember seeing it discussed 
somewhere around the time of the transition to DDMD; I'm too lazy 
to dig up a link right now.)