Named capture groups

[whitequark]

A major thing that ulex is missing is named capture groups, i.e. (Plus '0'..'9') as digits syntax. Sedlex misses it, too; asking the user to manually calculate the indexes is absurd.

[hhugo]

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[zoggy]

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[eyyub]

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[darioteixeira]

I've just came across this problem. And I agree, having to reprocess the whole matched lexeme with OCaml-re to fetch the individual groups is a bit ridiculous...

[toots]

Same here. This is a major blocker to move to sedlex. Will not consider it until this has been implement.. :-(

[whitequark]

Essentially, if you want it, implement it. At this point sedlex is not really maintained.

[nadako]

At this point sedlex is not really maintained.

That's a sad thing to hear. Is there any successor library?

[whitequark]

Not really.

[pmetzger]

This is very sad to hear indeed! (And let me second, for whomever may show up, the need for named capture groups.)