Re: [Help-smalltalk] Regex sub -expressions

[Mike Anderson]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>> The reason for passing the C structure to Smalltalk is that it allows
>> the user to access it directly as an optimization, and also to decide
>> that they would prefer the results in something other than a
>> Dictionary of Intervals.
>
> It's fine with me.  I am applying a similar patch, except that I create
> an object rather than a Dictionary, and I am using the full version all
> around.

> I'm still testing, I'll post it here.

I'll be happy to put it through its paces :-)

>> Incidentally, the fact that both regex implementations are in the
>> examples directory suggests that they are not 'official' packages.
>> Could we not elevate one to 'official' status?
>
> I did not want to do so until we had an official API.  But it was
> already "kind of" official, in that it was loaded by the module Regex.

I think it would be useful to identify it as, say, beta. People might 
think there was no point in submitting patches (or indeed, API 
suggestions) for an example.

Regards,

Mike