<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Just googled 'Benjamin Rosseax regexpr' and don't find anything that's trelevant! Where is it please? </span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">John</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 August 2011 15:41, Marcos Douglas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:md@delfire.net" target="_blank">md@delfire.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho<br>
<<a href="mailto:felipemonteiro.carvalho@gmail.com" target="_blank">felipemonteiro.carvalho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Florian Klämpfl<br>
> <<a href="mailto:florian@freepascal.org" target="_blank">florian@freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Why didn't you just give the sorokin tregexpr unit another name? This<br>
>> way, no incompatiblities would have been introduced.<br>
><br>
> Because:<br>
><br>
> 1> the old regexpr.pas had something like 20 lines of code and it's<br>
> own description said it doesn't even support most POSIX, so it didn't<br>
> look very useful?<br>
> 2> Most of Joost's code is in regex.pp which was not changed, not in<br>
> oldregexpr.pp<br>
> 3> Compatibility with Delphi projects which use regexpr.pas where it<br>
> means Sorokin's RegExpr (I've already found a couple of those only in<br>
> projects which I develop, I don't know if it was included in Delphi,<br>
> but I think it is possible because I found some projects which use it<br>
> but don't have it in the sources)<br>
> 4> Beginners would most likely try to use regexpr.pas which has the<br>
> most simple name, they are better off trying to use the Sorokin<br>
> version.<br>
> 5> Benjamin Rosseax regexpr is a new invention, not something well<br>
> stablished and widely used like the Sorokin unit (even Lazarus uses<br>
> the Sorokin version), so I recommend naming it something like<br>
> benjaminregexpr or something like that.<br>
<br>
If we had namespaces that could be 'renamed' inside the app...<br>
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Marcos Douglas<br>
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