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Date: | 2004-01-16 (09:34) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: mod_caml 1.0.6 - includes security patch |
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:15:30PM -0800, james woodyatt wrote: > On 15 Jan 2004, at 08:53, Richard Jones wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote: > >>I know it looks awful, but the four backslashes in the regexp > >>pattern for re2 indeed only stand for one. They have to be escaped > >>in the OCaml-string and also for PCRE again, > >>i.e. twice. Substitution patterns use the $-sign for escaping - > >>therefore escaping only needs to be done once. > > > >Another reason to hasten the addition of regular expressions to the > >OCaml lexer, 'a la Perl! > > Doesn't the lexer already have regular expressions? I think you mean > something to make regular expressions into first-class values in the > language. I'm not sure that's necessary. Being able to write: var ~ /ab+/ and similar certainly makes string handling and simple parsing a lot easier. Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment Perl4Caml lets you use any Perl library in your type-safe Objective CAML programs. http://www.merjis.com/developers/perl4caml/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners