[Help-smalltalk] [poll] regex literals

[Paolo Bonzini]

I'm thinking of adding regex literals to GNU Smalltalk.  The only syntax 
I found that would work is ##/regex/.  /regex/ wouldn't work for the old 
syntax, because the lexer has no way to understand that the / in this 
example

    a: b
        /regex/ printNl

starts a regex and is not a division operator.  It would work in the new 
syntax (after one of [ ( { ^ . keyword: identifier binary-message, and 
maybe a few more I forgot, / would start a regex, otherwise it would be 
a division operator), but I don't like to add a feature that cannot be 
ported to other Smalltalks.

What do you think?  Right now I'm more for "no" or "not yet", but I'm 
open to discussion.

Paolo