[squeak-dev] Question about VB-Regex

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Sun Mar 29 15:39:37 UTC 2020


Hi Christoph,

On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, Thiede, Christoph wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> as you may have noticed, I have proposed some new features for Regex-Core in recent past, and I found a lot of fun in working with this clean architecture for which I still see a lot of potential for expansion (for example, I'm currently having basic support for Unicode matches in my pipeline, this is currently
> blocked by this thread. For the future, I also would like to consider named groups & depending features). But before I will invest unnecessary time into the Regex-Core package, I have one question:
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> 
> Recently I stumbled upon VB-Regex, which looks very similar to Regex-Core. Has this been a predecessor of Regex-Core, is it a successor or are they two independent forks? I could not find any information about this topic on the web.

Yes, Regex-Core is a descendant of VB-Regex.

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> Is my assumption correct that Regex-Core is the regex "state of the art" within Squeak?

Yes.


Levente

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> Best,
> 
> Christoph
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