bug#48480: [a-Z] is not a valid regex range in 3.0.7

Taylan Kammer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17.05.2021 17:09, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> (make-regexp "[a-Z]") fails in Guile 3.0.7 with "Invalid range end".
> 
> This is a regression since 3.0.5.
> 

I think that's normal.

  $ grep -E '[a-Z]'
  grep: Invalid range end

You're supposed to use [a-zA-Z] or better yet, something locale-aware
such as [[:alpha:]].

I get the same error on Guile 2.2, are you sure that it ever worked?

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Taylan
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