On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:02:16AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Dan: > > This strikes me as an excellent candidate for a custom scalar type. I like > > the idea, and it could be really useful in some circumstances, but I'd not > > want to burden the default scalar with the code for this. > > Agreed. How does the regexp replacement engine cope with this? By implementing all replacements as substr() type ops? [or behaving as if it implements... whilst cheating and doing it direct for scalars it understands?] Or don't we need to work this out at this time? Nicholas Clark
