Re: regexps

[Alexander Malmberg]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
> I have no problem with additional APIs and regular expressions would be
> a good candidate for inclusion in the base additions library.  However,
> I don't want the base package to depend on any more external libraries if
> we can help it.

IMHO, for this and other reasons, I'd prefer to keep the -base library
as small and clean as possible. I think an independent Foundation-based
regexp library, possible in dev-libs/, is a much better idea.

- Alexander Malmberg