Asiri Rathnayake wrote:

> I went through the above idea presented for google summer of code 2007
> and found it interesting. In my opinion, incorporating Thompson NFA into
> regexp from the ground up is pretty cool. I also went through the
> alternate TRE (http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html) but couldn't verify
> whether its an implementation of Thompson NFA ( I will have to dig into
> it's source and find it out ). I would like to know further details (if
> any) regarding this project and the possible mentor(s).

I'll be the mentor.  Russ Cox may provide background info for the regexp
theories.

There are no more details to be mentioned.  You can also look at the
current regexp code in Vim, of course.

I'll do an announcement soon.  The shell server is down again, can't
change the web page right now :-(.

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