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That claim is false, I just need to bring one counter-example to disprove it. In Perl, regex is a language feature, yet it can be easily supplanted with a libra
by bmn__ 6y ago
That claim is false, I just need to bring one counter-example to disprove it. In Perl, regex is a language feature, yet it can be easily supplanted with a library that anyone can use and publish: https://metacpan.org/search?q=re%3A%3Aengine%3A%3A https://metacpan.org/search?q=re%3A%3Aengine%3A%3A
It is not necessary to convince the Perl maintainers to write that for you.
- thesz 6y agoYou, from my point of view, disproved nothing. Can you intersperse regexps-as-language-feature with regexps-as-a-library? If answer is "yes", then, I think, you actually proven my point and what is language feature is, actually, a library in disguise. A special kind of library, so to say. If answer is "no", then if you miss something in first thing (an ability to add arbitrary parsing from these libraries, for example) you need to convince language maintainers to work for you, at least, review your work and your proposal.