Tobia Conforto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alex Shinn wrote:
>> If Chicken switches to irregex, then we can just use SREs and be rid
>> of the ugliness of regex syntax forever.
>
> It does look more "scalable" a syntax, if not less ugly...
>
> (word (+ (| alphanum (".-_%")))
> "@"
> (+ (| alphanum (".-")))
> "."
> (** 2 4 alpha))
>
> vs.
>
> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],4}\b/
Actually, for that particular regexp (or what is intended by
it) the development version of irregex has a shorter form:
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Alex
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