Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:12:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Replacing our regex implementation Message-ID: <84842.36474.qm@web113506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20110509014938.EE292B827@mail.bitblocks.com>
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--- On Sun, 5/8/11, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote: ... > > C++ may be an impediment for it to go into libc but one > can certainly put a C interface on a C++ library. > I wouldn't think it's very consistent to use C++ in libc. Perhaps we could have the best of both worlds by using libtre as the libc regex replacement and re2 for grep and diff? As an extra benefit using Re2 would make it easier to support --perl-regex in grep. cheers, Pedro.
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