Re: [Vala] About regular expressions and pattern matching

[Denis Cheremisov <denis-cheremisov yandex ru>]

Use Ruby, Luke ;)

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 12:02 -0400, Levi Bard wrote:
> > > 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).
> >
> >  I'm not sure whether this would really make code easier to read, it can
> >  also have the opposite effect for people that don't know the syntax.
> >  Anyway, we don't intend to extend the current syntax substantially in
> >  the 0.3.x release cycle. We should discuss this after 1.0.
> 
> I agree that it would be convenient to have regex as a first-class data type.
> I don't think that:
> /(\d+)?\.\d+/ || /\.\d+/.match(inputStr)
> 
> is less readable than:
> new Regex("/(\d+)?\.\d+/ || /\.\d+/").match(inputStr)
> 
> , and some integration with language constructs like loops and switch
> statements would be fantastic.  After 1.0, of course. ;-)
>