On Feb 16, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Timothy Rowledge wrote:

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> On Feb 16, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:
>> Did we ever decide *which* regular expression stuff?
> Well the plugin compiles to about 32kb, so it's not exactly expensive 
> to have around.

Sure, but given both options I don't understand the bias towards using 
a plugin that depends on an external library.  Except in cases where 
it's impossible to get adequate performance in pure Squeak, shouldn't 
the bias go the other way?