Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:39 PM, BCS <a...@pathlink.com> wrote:
For what it's worth, I have a partial clone of the .NET API built on top of
PCRE. I would have to ask my boss but I expect I could donate it if anyone
want to use it as a basis.
Actually, I was wondering why nobody is considering real regular
languages anymore, that can be compiled to a normal finite state
recognizer or transducer. While this may not be as fancy as Perl-like
extensions, they are much faster, and it's easier to do fun stuff such
as composition.
I am considering that. One nice feature of "classic" regexes is that
they never backtrack, so they work with pure input iterators. This has
crucial consequences with regard to where and how regexes fit the range
concept hierarchy.
Andrei
