Larry Wall wrote: > "Sure, you can download the object code for this 5 line Perl program > into your toaster...but you'll also have to download this 5 gigabyte > regex interpreter before it'll run." > > That's a scenario I'd love to avoid. And if we can manage to store > regex opcodes and state using mechanisms similar to ordinary opcodes, > maybe we'll not fall back into the situation where the regex engine is > understood by only three people, plus or minus four. > > Larry Does anyone have on-their-shelves a regex-into-non-regex-perl translator? run time is not an issue, correct behavior is -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Obi-Wan taught me mysticism" -- Luke Housego
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- Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!) Dan Sugalski
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- Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!) Dan Sugalski
- Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!) Simon Cozens
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- Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!) David L. Nicol
- Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!) Uri Guttman
- Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!) Simon Cozens
- Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!) Dan Sugalski
- Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!) Dan Sugalski