On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Xavier Leroy wrote:

> You are correct: the regexp compiler (written in Caml) and the
> execution engine (written in C) are thread-safe, it's only the API (in
> Caml) that uses global state.

Good to know :-)

> The implementation work should be quite small indeed, but don't
> underestimate the work needed to design the API.  API design is harder
> than it seems...  But if a few persons on this list want to team up to
> design an API, that would be wonderful indeed.  (A small group is
> better than individual designers in that several pairs of eyes spot
> inconsistencies better.)

I would be glad to help if I can.

However, my concerns are more about how to integrate regular expressions
in the language so that they can be checked at compile-time just like the
rest of the program. My Camlp4 syntax extension
(http://martin.jambon.free.fr/micmatch.html) works just fine for this
purpose and I am not asking for any change in the core OCaml syntax ;-)


Martin

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Martin Jambon, PhD
Researcher in Structural Bioinformatics since the 20th Century
The Burnham Institute http://www.burnham.org
San Diego, California