[tbnl-devel] Accessing match information for regex dispatchers?

[Edi Weitz]

Hi!

(And thanks for the error handler patch.)

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:11:13 +0100, Stefan Scholl <stesch at no-spoon.de> wrote:

> Would it be bad style or a bad idea to extend
> CREATE-REGEX-DISPATCHER (html.lisp) to hold the result of
> CL-PPCRE:SCAN in variables you then DECLARE as SPECIAL so that the
> called handler function can access the match information?
>
> Something like *MATCH-START*, *MATCH-END*, *REG-STARTS*, and
> *REG-ENDS* just visible for the handler.

I'm not sure if it's bad style but I wouldn't like it.  Why would you
need it?  The handler has access to the URL anyway.

Cheers,
Edi.