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 SAA05809; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:49:40 +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 SAA05956 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:49:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from www.invert.com (invert.com [209.164.21.15]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f7OGnRj10146; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:49:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from miles@localhost) by www.invert.com (8.10.1/8.10.1AA) id f7OGnL317501; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:49:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from miles) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:49:21 -0700 From: Miles Egan To: Xavier Leroy Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] standard regex package Message-ID: <20010824094921.A17367@caddr.com> References: <20010823000625.B4229@aimlin> <20010823110821.B5828@caddr.com> <20010824111331.B25250@pauillac.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010824111331.B25250@pauillac.inria.fr>; from Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:13:31AM +0200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote: > The last time this topic came up on this list, I said that we aren't > opposed to put PCRE in the OCaml distribution (provided Markus agrees > with that, of course). BUT: in the name of backward compatibility, we > must have an Str-compatible interface to this library (same functions > and same regexp syntax as in Str), in addition to the native PCRE > interface. I think it can be done, but the replies I got to this > request were of the form "I don't have time to do this". I'd be happy to do it, but I'm afraid it's a bit beyond my abilities. What do you think of Markus' suggestion of simply keeping the current str module and adding a new pcre module? -- miles "We in the past evade X, where X is something which we believe to be a lion, through the act of running." - swiftrain@geocities.com ------------------- 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