From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA12320; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:29:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA12319 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:29:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f7MMT8f01305 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:29:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from clipper.ens.fr (clipper-gw.ens.fr [129.199.1.22]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f7MMSZm78974 ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:28:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from aimlin.ens.fr (root@clipper [129.199.129.1]) by clipper.ens.fr (8.9.2/jb-1.1) id AAA09951 ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:28:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by aimlin.ens.fr (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5D47B37283; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:06:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:06:25 +0200 From: Nicolas George To: Miles Egan Cc: Markus Mottl , neale-caml@woozle.org, caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Str.string_match raising Invalid_argument "String.sub" in gc Message-ID: <20010823000625.B4229@aimlin> References: <20010822222317.A3521@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <20010822133059.A93968@caddr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.4i In-Reply-To: <20010822133059.A93968@caddr.com>; from miles@caddr.com on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:31:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Le mercredi 22 août 2001 à 13:31, Miles Egan a écrit : >> PCRE-library (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions): > I've asked this several times before, but I think it's worth asking again: is > there any chance of adding pcre to the stock distribution? It's superior in > every way the the str module and much friendlier to python/perl refugees. I second that too. And because PCRE is under LGPL (Str is based on GNU regex, which is under GPL), it could be in the standard library and not only in the distribution. Maybe we could even hope a regexp pattern matching as a syntax extension :-) ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr