Re: [boost] [Review] xpressive

From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-19 11:24:34

From: "John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]>
> 
> > Not sure what to do about "\\<" and "\\>", though.
> 
> Sigh, yes it's a legacy from BSD style expressions, and probably shouldn't 
> be enabled for Perl style expressions, they're just so useful though, and 
> more efficient and precise than \b.

They are most definitely handy.  I used them regularly with grep
and vi (usually viper mode in emacs, but still).  xpressive could
include them as an extension, right?

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