• data man (5/5) Jan 24 2015 Hello!
• Dmitry Olshansky (13/18) Jan 24 2015 Originally it was used by internal tools to stress-test parser.

"data man" <datamanrb gmail.com> writes:

Hello!

SampleGenerator very useful.
It can be used for the generation of passwords, texts with 
complex rules, etc.

It may be worth making it available in public?

Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:

On 24-Jan-2015 21:34, data man wrote:
 Hello!

 SampleGenerator very useful.
 It can be used for the generation of passwords, texts with complex
 rules, etc.

 It may be worth making it available in public?

Originally it was used by internal tools to stress-test parser.
Part of the reason it's not public yet is that it doesn't handle all 
syntax extensions, notably lookaround is tricky to get right without 
falling into infinite loops. Another thing is that I don't want poorly 
specified API to stick forever in std, I already had my share of poor 
API problems in std.regex.

With all that being said - in the long run I definitely want to have 
something like that public. For now I could only suggest to hack 
protection attributes and be prepared for changes in the future. You may 
also create a bugzilla ticket so it's not forgotten.


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Dmitry Olshansky