On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Mark Engelberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Andy Fingerhut > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> (defn print-regex-my-way [re] >> (print "#regex ") >> (pr (str re))) >> >> That might be closer to what you want. >> > > Yes. That does the trick. That extra level of converting the regular > expression to a string does the trick because pr "does the right thing" > with strings, but not with regexes. I'd classify pr's different behavior > on regexes as a bug, but this is an effective workaround. > I found a deficiency with the trick of converting the regex to a string for printing. Consider: (print-regex-my-way #"\s") which will print as #regex "\\s" The extra \ changes the meaning of the regular expression. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
