[cl-ppcre-devel] Why is parse-string not exported

[Kick Damien-DKICK1]

 Edi Weitz wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:29:27 -0500, Gary King <gwking at metabang.com>
wrote:

> > Parse-string seems like a very handy tool for learning how to create
> > parse trees and for creating them even if you already know about
them.
> > Is there a reason not to export it?

> I wouldn't mind exporting it but I don't think it makes sense when
> you're actually /using/ PPCRE.  Seems more like something for the
> REPL to me.

Unless, perhaps, someone wanted to write a code walker for a regular
expression and wanted an easy way to canonicalize a regexp into parse
tree form.