Re: [boost] A future for Boost.Regex and xpressive

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-16 01:07:27

On 9/14/05 11:33 AM, "Eric Niebler" <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Jeff Flinn wrote:
>> 
>> That begs the question: do we need Boost.Regex's interface? I'm not up to
>> date on Boost.Regex's status as far as TR1, so maybe it's a done deal
>> already. But it seems to me that xpressive has a broader application domain,
>> and may be a better candidate?
> <snip>
> It's a done deal. The Boost.Regex interface has already been accepted as
> the TR1 regex interface.

It wouldn't be the first time an interface was accepted into C++ that seemed
great at the time, but possibly better alternates were discovered later....

(e.g. valarray vs. expression templates, vector<bool> vs. separate type)

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