On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, John Siracusa wrote:
> On 6/7/02 4:48 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > rule tag($name) {:w \< $name %opts:=[ (\S+)=(\S+) ]* \> }
> >
> > Then, you can match an img tag with:
> >
> > / <tag 'img'> /
> >
> > See, isn't that great?
>
> Don't you mean, "see, isn't that massively over-simplified?" ;)
D'oh! Yes, quotes, right....
I like the idea that regular expressions, er, I mean, pattern matching
does grammar-like things now. And the fact that you can derive. I would
love to see perl replace yacc, for the most part. Perl's looking like a
*very* powerful text processing language, on a higher level than it was
before.
I'm just expressing my respect for the new design.
> (but yeah, we get the idea... :)
Thanks.
