On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote:
> > > On Aug 27, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Chouser wrote: > > > The benefits of #"" producing a real java.util.regex.Pattern > > object instead of some Clojury wrapper will decrease as it > > becomes more common to write Clojure code that can run on > > non-JVM platforms. So although this idea has come up and > > then been abandoned several times before, I think it's worth > > bringing up again periodically to see what makes sense. > > Why wouldn't #"" produce whatever the corollary regex object is on > each host platform? > I had a couple suggestions on clojure-dev for ClojureCLR that line up with the "produce the corollary idea": http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-dev/browse_thread/thread/d4286dac9f1cf8ba/7e05daa7b782c075 . <http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-dev/browse_thread/thread/d4286dac9f1cf8ba/7e05daa7b782c075> > Tangentially, if I think ahead a couple of 'moves', I'd think that > perhaps there's a desire to have clojure code that is thoroughly > portable between, say, Java and .NET host platforms. > Essentially, as Chouser noted, #"" and re-seq as currently defined in Clojure get you pretty far as a portable API. However, unless the platforms agree on literal regex syntax (they don't, beyond the basic "asdf|[0-9]+" features) will prevent true portability of the literals. Shawn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
