Simon Cozens:
# On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:37:50PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
# > You sure about that? I've got an rx_compile op slotted
# in--would that
# > be appropriate?
#
# Only if every single language hosted by Parrot compiles regexes in the
# same way.
It's meant to be a simple fallback for languages that are too pathetic
to implement their own regex compiler. ("FooLang should have regular
expressions, but I'm too lazy! I'll just use rx_compile!") Currently
I'm thinking of it as having a minimal feature set, less-than-phenomenal
performance, and little optimization.
Decent languages, like Perl, will probably implement their own
compilers. This will allow them to support special syntaxes (think
(?{}) and the like) and optimize the hell out of things.
--Brent Dax
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