On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:43:43PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 08:34 PM 6/4/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:26:26PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> > > Does anyone have on-their-shelves a regex-into-non-regex-perl translator?
> >
> >Does anyone have on-their-shelves a David-Nicol-into-English translator? :)
>
> I think he's looking for something that turns a regex into perl that
> doesn't involve regexes.
You must be sharing the pipe with David since I couldn't make head||tails
about it, either :-)
Err...a regex that isn't a regex, is this a Zen koan...? Ahhh, you
want to emulate the state machine in Pure Perl. Okay... next thing
you want to do is to write symbolic assembler in C...? :-)
> > > run time is not an issue
> >
> >Wrong.
>
> Um.... Presumably if he *was* interested in run time he wouldn't have said
> that. (Which isn't to say that I'm not interested in run time for something
> like that if it's to be used in perl 6, but that's a separate issue)
>
> Dan
>
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