On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:43:08AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > I'd suggest looking at the t/op/re_tests file from Perl 5. It's based > on the test suite that originally came with Henry Spencer's regular > expression package. It would, of course, need to be translated and > extended, but it contains a lot of torturous tests for the standard > rx behavior. And it's all just a table of tests and results, so no > Perl code at all.
And, in fact, eventually it'd be nice to have a Parrot-based test harness for this, since the rules are going to be compiled into Parrot subroutines (or objects) and executed from there. Basically read patterns/test cases from the table, call the "p6ge" compiler on each pattern, and run the test targets and output the results. Pm
