[racket-dev] `regexp-match**'

If you are going to make a new, more general function you could make
all of the arguments keyword based.

Robby

On Saturday, June 4, 2011, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> So the request to get subgroups from `regexp-match*' is not new, and
> since I've seen it twice in a week I'm going to add it.  What I'm
> thinking to do is some `regexp-match**' that takes another argument
> that is the function to apply on the usual results of `regexp-match'.
> Assuming that this is the first argument, `regexp-match*' could be
> defined simply as:
>
>   (define (regexp-match* . xs)
>     (apply regexp-match** car xs))
>
> but now you can use `values' and get the complete results from each
> match, or `cdr' and get just the subgroups, etc.
>
> (I'll probably do some `regexp-match-positions**' too.)
>
> The question is how to add that argument.  Adding a keyword to a
> function that already has 57 arguments looks odd; adding a 58th
> argument is bad for obvious reason that lead to keyword args in the
> first place; adding it first is the most convenient, but seems like it
> would be an odd extensions.
>
> Opinions?
>
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