[2239] in java-interest
Re: regular expressions in Java(2)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Breuel)
Wed Sep 27 08:35:43 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 03:30:55 -0700
From: Thomas Breuel <tmb@best.com>
To: Glen.Perkins@nativeguide.com, java-interest@java.sun.com,
meessen@cppm.in2p3.fr
Using native methods would make it efficient but refrain portability.
In that case the only reasonable solution is to make it part of the
standard java library. this would add more work for people porting java on
new plateform. regexp is very portable though.
One choice would be to have a slow, portable implementation in Java
that people can use as a fallback when the native code is too hard
to port for some reason.
Thomas.
PS: I still think that Perl REs are a better choice. Also, that code
is known to work on most flavors of UNIX, as well as Mac, OS/2, and Windows,
and it is legally unencumbered. Also, it has become kind of a WWW standard,
given how many WWW search scripts use Perl REs.
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