Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:08 PM 6/4/2001 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>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 :-)

Hey, it's the standard, regulation-issue perl internals pipe. Didn't you 
get one with the pumpkin? (I think they put it inside as a joke... :)

>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...? :-)

I know, I know, what *are* we thinking? Heck, next thing you know we'll 
want to go parsing text in C too... :-P

                                        Dan

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