Re: [Vala] About regular expressions and pattern matching

[Denis Cheremisov <denis-cheremisov yandex ru>]

And me, me!
Make the garbage collection, closures, tuples, list comprehensions,
pattern matching and carrying :D:D:D



On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:07 +0300, jp0409 jippii fi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for a great language! I was wondering if you have plans to add 
> first class regular expressions? They should be relatively simple to 
> implement since the libs are there in Glib but they would make code much 
> easier to read compared to calling functions. Replacements based on 
> regular expressions could also be there like in Perl (and others).
> 
> It would also be nice to have pattern matching that goes beyond simple 
> switch statement by allowing matching strings with reg exps (and other 
> types like floating point numbers with values or value ranges etc. as 
> well) like:
> 
>   match (s) {
>   on ( /(\d+)?\.\d+/ || /\.\d+/ ) { /* do float stuff */ }
>   on ( /\d+/ ) { /* do int stuff, no break needed at the end of block */ }
>   default { /* error */ }
>   }
> 
> Anyway these if..then..elsif... control structures are so common that it 
> would make code to look cleaner if there is support for them in the 
> language.
> 
> Regards,
> J-P
> 
> 
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