[squeak-dev] Regex (was: The Inbox: Morphic-hjh.434.mcz)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue May 4 13:46:07 UTC 2010


On 04.05.2010, at 03:58, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> Yes, that's an idea. However if I have the code snippet easily
> available in the 'Extending the System' workspace, then that's fine
> for me the time being.
> 
> In fact I consider the Regex package to be a bit weak in terms of
> functionality but I think we do not have anything more comprehensive.
> 
> It is easy for me to install a new image, run the updates and then
> execute a few more statements to configure the image for a particular
> purpose.
> 
> --Hannes
> 
> On 5/3/10, Ian Trudel <ian.trudel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why isn't Regex included in the core image? It's a question I have in
>> my mind for a while. Dealing with text in Smalltalk often results in a
>> lot of code to write. Regular expressions are useful. Many programming
>> languages nowadays have a Regexp engine included.
>> 
>> Ian.
>> --
>> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/


Seems to be a perfect example of a package that could be bundled with a release but not be loaded by default? 

- Bert -






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