Re: [ANN] RegexKit - An Objective-C Framework for Regular Expressions Using the PCRE Library

FROM : Michael Watson
DATE : Thu Sep 06 09:02:37 2007

Isn't "NS" reserved for Apple? (So much as the namespace can be 
reserved, that is.)



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m-s

On 05 Sep, 2007, at 10:08, Ilan Volow wrote:

> If by the time that 10.5 is released, the mac development community 
> still doesn't have basic regex support in Foundation, you have my 
> vote to the change the name of your project to NSRegularExpression.
>
> -- Ilan
>
> On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
>

>> On 1 Sep 2007, at 20:49, John Engelhart wrote:
>>

>>> Announcing RegexKit - A framework for regular
>>> expressions using the PCRE library.

>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Any chance of changing the name to PCREKit or something more 
>> specific?  It's just that there are a number of regexp libraries, 
>> all with subtly different implementations (e.g. POSIX, PCRE, 
>> Oniguruma, ICU...).  It can be a bit puzzling at times when 
>> confronted with apps using the various different libraries (and/or 
>> with various different options enabled), so I think it'd be good 
>> to make it *really* obvious to people that your library is using 
>> PCRE.
>>
>> Incidentally, does PCRE have good (i.e. native) support for 
>> UTF-16?  Oniguruma and ICU both do (and ICU includes a powerful 
>> implementation of the regex character class feature that lets you 
>> query Unicode attributes), which makes them a good choice for 
>> integration with Cocoa, but if you have to e.g. transcode to UTF-8 
>> in order to use regex matching, it's going to be somewhat more 
>> expensive.
>>
>> BTW, nice documentation.  I was going to ask what tools you used 
>> to do it, but it looks like you included them in the source 
>> distribution.  You should consider packaging up the doc. building 
>> tools separately, as it looks like they're an improvement on 
>> headerdoc.
>>
>> On 1 Sep 2007, at 22:20, John C. Randolph wrote:
>>

>
> Ilan Volow
> "Implicit code is inherently evil, and here's the reason why:"
>
>
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