On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > The solution some suggest is just to using renaming. [...] I could
> > try to prefix the SRE identifiers consistently, e.g. `rx:' and
> > `rx?', except oops, the underlying SRE engine doesn't know these
> > names!
>
> If it's hygienic -- ie, if it's comparing identifiers, then it would
> work fine.  No impasse.
>

The underlying engine is irregex.  It _can't_ be hygienic even if
I wanted it to - it's not a macro language.  It shouldn't be a macro
language either, otherwise you couldn't dynamically generate
SREs which would really suck.

-- 
Alex
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