At 6:28 PM -0800 1/30/02, Steve Fink wrote: >I'm sure in Apoc 5 Larry's going to go way beyond that and embed full >parsers, not just regularish language matchers, but the above is >easier to grasp.
Odds are, yes. And don't be surprised if the RE engine's required to return data structures as well. (Nested parens returns you a tree struct, for example) I think we may want trees as a fundamental data type at some point... -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk