Edi Weitz wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:29:27 -0500, Gary King gwking@metabang.com

wrote:

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Parse-string seems like a very handy tool for learning how to create parse trees and for creating them even if you already know about

them.

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Is there a reason not to export it?

I wouldn't mind exporting it but I don't think it makes sense when you're actually /using/ PPCRE. Seems more like something for the REPL to me.

Unless, perhaps, someone wanted to write a code walker for a regular expression and wanted an easy way to canonicalize a regexp into parse tree form.