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On Jul 7, 2006, at 2:48 AM, felix winkelmann wrote:
A general question to all list members:
The multiude of regex engines is both a pain for building and
using chicken, as the regex-flavors are never quite the same
and handling the different cases gets tedious quickly.
What do others think about adding one regex library for
alll platforms? It must be BSD licensed. Currently there
are two candidates which look interesting:
- PCRE
My vote is for PCRE.
- Oniguruma (very powerful, but also very big)
Ogre (the Obj-C binding of Oniguruma; oni is usually translated as
orge BTW) is very popular on MacOS (although most users don't know
this as it is bundled w/ the apps the use it).
Also popular w/ the Ruby crowd.
- - Support for just about every text encoding
- - Wider ambiguity semantics
- - Wider subgroups semantics
Binding to Chicken would require a larger API to support the various
matching & capture modes.
I think if you don't know you need it you don't need it. (Which
ignorance level is this?)
cheers,
felix
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