> On May 3, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Matt Wette <matt.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On May 3, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >> Hi Matt, >> >> Mes is now packaged in Guix. It bundles a modified copy of >> Nyacc-0.76.5. It would like to package Nyacc separately and >> depend on that, however, Mes cannot use Nyacc as is, at the >> moment because of three Mes problems >> >> 1) Mes has no regex >> 2) Mes has no proper module system, there is only one environment >> 3) For Mes I like simple pmatch better than match >> >> Attached are the patches Mes is using right now. I intend to fix 2) at >> a certain point but haven't planned that yet. I have no plans for 1), >> I'd rather not support regexps if I can get away with it. 3) is >> probably not mandatory, but it helps being lightweight. >> >> How do you feel about supporting such shortcomings of Mes? I can >> imagine that's not a great thing to do, however Mes carrying a copy >> of Nyacc is also not fantastic? >> >> Greetings, >> janneke > > Hi Jan, > > Those don’t look to terrible to do. I will take a look. I think they can be > done.
But it would be nice to know what MES does have. String-search ? Character sets? I have replaced match w/ pmatch .