[plt-scheme] 352.6

This is not backwards compatible.

For example:

(require (planet "regexps.ss" ("dherman" "javascript.plt" 3) "syntax"))

has the error:

regexp: `*', `+', or `{...}' operand could be empty

Jay

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:10:11 0800, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> MzScheme and MrEd are now version 352.6 in the SVN repository trunk.
>
> MzScheme's built-in regexp system now supports the usual collection of
> "Perl-compatible" features: numeric quantifiers, backreferences,
> character classes, Unicode predicates, case-insensitive mode,
> multi-line mode, lookahead, lookbehind, non-backtracking, and
> conditionals.
>
> Most of these have been added to the syntax of `regexp' and #rx. Adding
> numeric quantifiers, backreferences, character classes, and Unicode
> predicates, however, would change the syntax of `regexp' in
> backward-incompatible ways. Therefore, those features are accessible
> only via `pregexp' or the new #px syntax. I recommend that you use #px
> and `pregexp' from now on.
>
> The "pregexp.ss" library in MzLib now re-exports MzScheme's `pregexp'.
> A module can import the same identifier multiple times when it's from
> the same source, so a module that uses the `mzscheme' language can
> still require `(lib "pregexp.ss")'. The other "pregexp.ss" exports are
> mostly wrappers for `regexp-' procedures, but the wrappers convert a
> string or byte-string pattern using `pregexp' instead of `regexp'.
>
> Other changes:
>
>  * Added `regexp-match?', which returns a simple #t when the pattern
>    matches. This avoids the string allocation of `regexp-match', and it
>    is more clear than using `regexp-match-positions' to avoid
>    allocation.
>
>  * Improved compilation of `syntax' forms, and changed `syntax' to
>    preserve the 'paren-shape property for constructed syntax objects.
>    Also, the ".zo" form is more compact for some syntax objects.
>
>
> Matthew
>
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