Bye bye, fast compilation times

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 02:29:07PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2/6/2018 12:30 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > The regex in question I think is to ensure an email address like
> > abc at 192.168.0.5 has a valid IP address. The D1 function doesn't
> > support that requirement.
> > 
> > I admit, I've never used it, so I don't know why it needs to be so
> > complex. But I assume some people depend on that functionality.
> 
> Regex is well known to not always be the best solution for string
> processing tasks. For example, it does not work well at all where
> recursion is desired, and nobody uses regex for lexer in a compiler.

Are you sure?  What about lex and its successors, like flex?

Of course, one could argue that the generated code isn't strictly a
regex implementation in the same way as std.regex... but isn't that just
a QoI issue? 


T

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Life would be easier if I had the source code. -- YHL