Re: Questions regarding regexp module

Daniel Jour <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
Message-ID <CACZHyTOM7jeRypbK0FR_a4onCoZ5ZQy6kyCdF=nnXzNwk-FVMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Pascal wrote:
> Since the name of the C structure is regex_t, and since it contains
> one useful slot (re_nsub), perhaps you could name the type regex,
> and provide a regex-nsub reader.

Done.


Regarding the multiple values: regexp-exec allows to specify the
return type: multiple values, list, vector, boolean.

> IMO, it should always return multiple values, or always return a
> sequence.

I'd say to be consistent then, that is returning multiple values when
they're requested, and to follow what you wrote:

> just limit nmatch to multiple-values-limit or the actual number of
> expected values.

I pushed these changes to my "working fork".

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