Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 23:12:07 UTC, Johannes Pfau > wrote: >> There's one special thing about this module: It uses the ragel >> (http://www.complang.org/ragel/) state machine compiler. I hope >> this is not a problem for phobos, ragel doesn't introduce any >> runtime dependencies and has no effect on licensing. There's >> also no need to integrate ragel in the build process. We can >> publish a pregenerated .d file, which should be updated >> manually whenever changes to uuid.rl are made. > > Would it be hard to reimplement the ragel part using string > mixins? From a quick glance at it, it doesn't seem too difficult.
It wouldn't be too difficult. Ragel is only used to parse the text form of uuids. As that's a pretty simple task, such a parser could be written manually. But I also have a almost complete HTTP header parser/formatter implementation using ragel which I wanted to propose for phobos eventually. And I'm not going to rewrite those, so I hoped std.uuid could clear the way for ragel based code in phobos ;-)
