On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 02:43, 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 ...

AFAIK: The C Pcre that it wraps does use global variables 
and so while the interface appears re-entrant
it isn't.

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