Re: regex.c simplification

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:55:42 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:42:37 -0700
> > From: "Daniel Colascione" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> >   
> > > The emacs regex code is hardly state of the art. I would
> > > suggest that there are many other, better, free software
> > > implementations of regexes.  
> > 
> > There are. Unfortunately, none of them understand predicates like
> > \= and \s|.  
> 
> Right.  And there are a few more features important to Emacs that
> other implementations don't support.
> 
> So, while I think modernizing our regex code would be a welcome
> development, we shouldn't mislead ourselves into thinking that any
> other implementation could be a drop-in replacement.  Some work will
> be needed to add the features we expect.
> 

I was arguing in the opposite direction, that there isn't much point
in thinking others will be interested in using the Emacs regex code
in the future.

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Perry E. Metzger                address@hidden