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 HAA20748; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:39:05 +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 HAA20573 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:39:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hotmail.com (dav66.law15.hotmail.com [64.4.22.201]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f7N5d3H13375 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:39:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:39:01 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [172.149.59.8] From: "Jeremy Fincher" To: References: <20010822222317.A3521@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <20010822133059.A93968@caddr.com> <20010822135221.E13265@jean.nwlink.com> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Str.string_match raising Invalid_argument "String.sub" in gc Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:36:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Aug 2001 05:39:01.0143 (UTC) FILETIME=[E98B5A70:01C12B95] Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I'm one of those Python/Perl refugees (I knew both before I knew O'Caml, actually) and I can definitely agree that I would find it ridiculous to spend any amount of time learning a new (not only new, but *inferior* in many regards) regexp syntax and interface when Pcre already exists for O'Caml. I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be in the stock distribution; I know that I won't be using O'Caml and regular expressions together without it. Jeremy > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:31:00PM -0700, Miles Egan wrote: > > 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. ------------------- 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