Dan Sugalski: # At 10:02 PM 1/11/2002 -0600, David M. Lloyd wrote: # >Just out of curiosity, is the regex compiler going to be # written in Parrot # >or C? # # Probably either perl or C. It'll be considered just another # language by the # parser.
You sure about that? I've got an rx_compile op slotted in--would that be appropriate? FWIW, I think that regexes are probably too specialized to be treated as Just Another Language. Moreover, I suspect that individual languages might want to compile their own regexes--for example, Java allows *+, ++ and ?+, which are greedy and don't backtrack. --Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Parrot Configure pumpking and regex hacker <obra> mmmm. hawt sysadmin chx0rs <lathos> This is sad. I know of *a* hawt sysamin chx0r. <obra> I know more than a few. <lathos> obra: There are two? Are you sure it's not the same one?
