On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:49:17PM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> My initial plan was to have two APIs, the old Str for compatibility
> and a newer, better designed one for new programs.  Besides being
> thread-safe, the new API could also expose the abstract syntax tree
> for regexps, allowing easier construction of complex regexps by
> programs than can be done by working at the level of the string
> representation of regexps.  It's just that I never got to design
> that new API :-(

The API used by Olin Shivers for regexps in scsh might be a good
starting point.

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