I haven't given this a WHOLE lot of thought, so please, shoot it full
of holes.
I certainly like the goal of this RFC, but I dislike the idea that the
specification for
what chacters are going to match are specified outside of the RE.
I want to be able specify a character, set of characters or maybe even
another RE, in the primary RE that specifies what an open
"brace-athen-acket" looks like, and then a common symbol that is used to
say "the matching brace-athen-acket".
This is a quick guess at a syntax that I have no great attachment to
(though I think it works). Consider this example:
m/\m[{(].*\M/;
the \m[{(] says I want to match on either open paren or open-brace.
the \M indicates the matching close for whatever was found in the
appropriate \m.
Possible problems here are:
- matching multiple character "opens" like "<<" or "/*".
- knowing what the closing match should be (when it's not obvious) as
in the above cases.
- (possibly) a problem when you've got many /m-/M pairs in a single RE
I've got some vague ideas on solving all of these, I'll go into if
people like the basic concept enough.
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David Corbin
Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc.
http://www.machturtle.com
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