> : Though whether being able to > : yank out the RE engine and treat it as a standalone library is important > : enough to warrant being treated as a design goal or not is a separate > : issue. (I think so, as it also means I can treat it as a black box for the > : moment so there's less to try and stuff in my head at once) > > As a fellow bear of very little brain, I'm just trying to point out that > we already have a good example of the dangers to that approach. Still, having the regexen as "reusable component" (i.e. library) wouldn't be a bad idea. The current regex code most definitely isn't detachable or reusable, so we can't have said to have explored that option. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
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