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> : Though whether being able to
> : yank out the RE engine and treat it as a standalone library is important
> : enough to warrant being treated as a design goal or not is a separate
> : issue. (I think so, as it also means I can treat it as a black box for the
> : moment so there's less to try and stuff in my head at once)
>
> As a fellow bear of very little brain, I'm just trying to point out that
> we already have a good example of the dangers to that approach.
Still, having the regexen as "reusable component" (i.e. library)
wouldn't be a bad idea. The current regex code most definitely isn't
detachable or reusable, so we can't have said to have explored that
option.
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