[erlang-questions] Re: Adoption of perl/javascript-style regexp syntax

[Robert Virding]

2009/6/3 mats cronqvist <masse@REDACTED>

> "Richard O'Keefe" <ok@REDACTED> writes:
>
> > That pain level is there for a good reason: if the Erlang string
> > syntax is giving you that much of a headache, it's because STRINGS ARE
> > WRONG and you should almost certainly be using trees instead.
>
>   Alas, re wants strings, and there's not much I can do about that.


Not quite true. The *underlying implementation* wants the regexp as a string
but this does not mean that the user has to supply it as a string. You could
very well allow the regexp as an AST (as well as?) and then internally
convert it to a string.

Robert