[racket] can racket have a regexp-equal?

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Robby

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:22 PM, ozzloy <ozzloy at gmail.com> wrote:
> i was writing a unit test which had something analogous to the following:
> (check-equal? #rx"a" #rx"a")  => raises exn:test:check
> so i checked and sure enough:
> (equal? #rx"a" #rx"a) => #f
> which led me to look for a regexp-equal? so i could do (check regexp-equal?
> #rx"a" #rx"a")
> that doesn't exist, so i wrote one:
> (define (regexp-equal? a b)
>   (and (and (regexp? a)
>             (regexp? b))
>        (or (and (pregexp? a)
>                 (pregexp? b))
>            (and (not (pregexp? a))
>                 (not (pregexp? b))))
>        (equal? (object-name a)
>                (object-name b))))
> why not just have (equal? #rx"a" #rx"a") => #t ?
> anticipated objection: "what should equal? mean for two regexps?"
> it should mean that the patterns are identical, totally ignoring that two
> non-identical patterns might match exactly the same set, like #rx"(a|b)" and
> #rx"(b|a)".
> i see in the docs that there is an internal regexp value.  if those are what
> i think they are, i propose equal? just compares those for regexes.
>
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