Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> : Though whether being able to 
> : yank out the RE engine and treat it as a standalone library is important 
> : enough to warrant being treated as a design goal or not is a separate 
> : issue. (I think so, as it also means I can treat it as a black box for the 
> : moment so there's less to try and stuff in my head at once)
> 
> As a fellow bear of very little brain, I'm just trying to point out that
> we already have a good example of the dangers to that approach.

Still, having the regexen as "reusable component" (i.e. library)
wouldn't be a bad idea.  The current regex code most definitely isn't
detachable or reusable, so we can't have said to have explored that
option.

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