Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:21:01PM +0200, Alex Baretta wrote:
> 
>>Actually, I'm a happy user of Str, but I find the absence in Ocaml of a 
>>functional "canonical" regexp feature striking.
> 
> 
> I'm fascinated to know what this "functional" API would look like.  I
> use Pcre and it doesn't appear to have any global internal state
> AFAICS ...
> 
> Rich.
> 

I simply don't know PCRE well enough to discuss it. I'm not arguing in 
favor or against any specific API. I just observed that it is striking 
the the support available in the core ocaml distribution has a 
procedural API rather than a functional one. This does not imply that 
Str is any worse or better than PCRE.

Alex

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