Re: [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/.  
> > ...
> > What do you think?  Right now I'm more for "no" or "not yet", but I'm 
> > open to discussion.
>
> One thing I've seen with locale describing symbols in VisualWorks is
> #"de_de.UTF-8"

Yes, that's #'de_de.UTF-8'.  It's supported in GNU Smalltalk too, for 
"weird" symbols that are not valid Smalltalk message names.

> , so going along with this approach something like
> #/.../ makes sense.

Two hashes because #/ is valid Smalltalk.

Paolo