On 11/26/2013 6:17 AM, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:44:27PM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Michael Montague <xxxxxx@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Why can the procedure 'regexp' be called with an already compiled <re>
>>> which is just returned?
> Convenience, I'd say.  That way you can create modules which have an
> interface that accepts either SREs or regexp objects (like irregex does),
> having it automatically compile SREs.

I propose dropping the requirement that 'regexp' can be called with an
already compiled <re>. It provides no additional functionality and it
makes the specification of 'regexp' less clear.