Re: "dynamic" rx expressions

[sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])]

>>>>> "Brian" == briand  <briand@zipcon.net> writes:

Brian> Very simply, why doesn't this work ?

>> (define x '(| "a1" "b2"))
>> x
Brian> '(| "a1" "b2")
>> (rx x)

Brian> Error: Illegal regular expression
Brian>        x
1> 
>> (rx ,x)

Because X is a list, but SRE's are syntax.

Brian> They come in as strings, so I make a string input port, (read) them,
Brian> and then try to do:

Look at SRE->REGEXP in Section 6.5.2 of the manual.

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