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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
January 30, 2002 18:37
Subject:
Re: parrot rx engine
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At 6:28 PM -0800 1/30/02, Steve Fink wrote:
>I'm sure in Apoc 5 Larry's going to go way beyond that and embed full
>parsers, not just regularish language matchers, but the above is
>easier to grasp.

Odds are, yes. And don't be surprised if the RE engine's required to 
return data structures as well. (Nested parens returns you a tree 
struct, for example)

I think we may want trees as a fundamental data type at some point...
-- 
                                         Dan

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