30th
Better regex’s coming in Erlang
Things are moving quickly in the Erlang world, apparently. The regexp module, which has been around for a while, is, by most accounts, no kind of good. It’s painfully slow, lacking in modern features, and not very binary (or unicode) friendly. However, turns out that there’s a new re module, which fixes all of that, integrating Perl-style regex’s via the PCRE library. It’s still “experimenal”, subject to final approval of an Erlang Enhancement Proposal (EEP), but it’s there in R12B4 if you want to use it:
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/re.html
Also, the EEP makes for fascinating reading to understand what’s involved in making external libraries play nice with Erlang’s massively concurrent world:
http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0011.html
-Dan M
