Re: Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> It'd be nice to have a front-end that lets you write a kind of lex-like
> set of rules, but I think it'd be important for that front-end to allow
> *computing* the replacement rather than only selecting it based on the
> matched regexp.  Something like
>
>     (foo-replace results
>       ("\\[" "(")
>       ("\\]" ")")
>       ("[[:lower:]]+" (upcase (match-string 0)))
>       ("siglo \\([0-9]+\\)"
>        (integer-to-roman (string-to-number (match-string 1))))
>       ...)

Perfect.  That looks like a really nice function signature to me.
Perhaps without the parentheses if there's only one replacement to be
done.

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