Hi list,
I really like Elias' former simple API, that is:
> The way I envision this to work, is to have the function return ⍬ if there
> is no match, or a string containing the match, if there is one:
>
> 'f..' ⎕Regex 'xzooy'
> ┏⊖┓
> ┃0┃
> ┗━┛
> 'f..' ⎕Regex 'xfooy'
> 'foo'
>
> If the
Dyalog's implementation is much more expressive than what I had proposed.
There are technical reasons why we have no hope of replicating their
functionality (in particular, GNU APL does not have support for namespaces).
Their function takes arguments and returns a function, which is a matcher
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