Re: Lazy Strings and Regexes

2010-10-31 Thread Darren Duncan
Francesco 'Oha' Rivetti wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:29:27 +0100, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: If we can efficiently match against a lazy string, and if this doesn't turn the lazy string into a (large) normal string, then the best way to process a file might be something similar to:

Lazy Strings and Regexes

2010-10-25 Thread Ben Goldberg
I know that perl6 has / will have lazy strings, since (in S32::Containers) the List role defines a cat method, which returns a Cat object, which does the Str interface, but generates the string lazily. First, are Cat objects documented anywhere else? Secondly, if a regular expression match is