On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:02:23 +1100, Igor Plekhov penguin@ocean.vvo.ru wrote:
I have searched Google... It is certainly a bug in CMUCL :-(
Too bad. Do you have a URL? Will they fix it?
As a workaround it can be written as: (defparameter a-z '(:char-class (:range #\a #\z) (:range #\a #\z))) (defparameter a-z* `(:greedy-repetition 0 nil ,a-z))
(defun ascii-char-tester (string) (scan `(:sequence :start-anchor ,a-z* :end-anchor) string))
But that way you'll lose the constantness of the regular expression so CL-PPCRE won't be able to use the compiler macros to pre-compile the regular expression. (Just in case you're concerned about performance.)
Cheers, Edi.