On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Thilo Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > Roberto Franchini wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Thilo Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: [cut]
> Yes, the constraint API is awkward to use. It was really only > supposed to be the back-end for a string based interface, i.e., > constraints you would just write like this: > > (x.begin <= y.begin) & (x.end >= y.end) looks wonderful :) > > I had implemented this at some time, but I'd used some compiler > library with the wrong kind of license, so we had to remove it. > I forget the details... > > I'm currently toying with the idea of doing something like this > in Groovy, shouldn't be too hard. Groovy looks very promising. I want to investigate the drools rule engine too for writing grammars (like JAPE). > I just have to find the time ;-) > I'm going to relocate myself to a planet with 48 hours day's lenght..... roberto -- Roberto Franchini http://www.celi.it http://www.blogmeter.it http://www.memesphere.it Tel +39-011-6600814 jabber:[email protected] skype:ro.franchini
