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Re: A proposal for more powerful text processing to be built in to Perl: Flex and Pushdown Expressions.

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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
May 11, 2001 09:12
Subject:
Re: A proposal for more powerful text processing to be built in to Perl: Flex and Pushdown Expressions.
Message ID:
200105111611.JAA07063@kiev.wall.org
I consider that the biggest weakness of the regex implementation
currently is that it can't easily return nested data structures.

Of course, regex readability could always use work too.

Larry
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