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

[David L. Nicol]

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



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