Re: [dev] another text user interface for sam

From: Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 16:46:19 +0000

On 29 February 2016 at 18:51, Greg Reagle <greg.reagle_AT_umbc.edu> wrote:
> Another approach would be to write a structural regexp library. Then
> structural regexp's could be available to other programs.

I've been thinking about this, actually. What might be even better is
a regular expression library which just makes it easy to build
structural regular expressions on top of it. The interfaces of common
libraries, be they Unix or Plan 9 or RE2, are not sufficiently
expressive to support this, which is why those programs that do
feature structural regular expressions have a custom engine baked in.
This would require quite careful planning of the library's API in
order to work well, though. I'm giving it some thought at the moment
anyway.

cls
Received on Tue Mar 01 2016 - 17:46:19 CET