RFC: new changeresyntax builtin

2006-07-05 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
I'm thinking of removing epatsubst, eregexp and erenamesyms in HEAD, in favour of a more flexible and scalable changeresyntax builtin as an analogue to re_set_syntax in the GNU regex C API. Rather than implement the full 2 dozen or so RE_CONTEXT_INDEP_ANCHORS and friends along with a mini-parser t

Re: RFC: new changeresyntax builtin

2006-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
Gary V. Vaughan gnu.org> writes: > > I'm thinking of removing epatsubst, eregexp and erenamesyms in HEAD, in > favour of a more flexible and scalable changeresyntax builtin as an > analogue to re_set_syntax in the GNU regex C API. > > If a bogus operand is given: > > changeresyntax(`meh') >