Re: [Oorexx-devel] Regular expression progress

2010-05-08 Thread Rick McGuire
If you are going to require ME to organize the effort, then this will likely be a long time in coming. I have a lot of items in the queue ahead of this. However, if somebody else would like to step up and define this, I might even be inspired to write the compiler for it. Rick On Sat, May 8, 20

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Regular expression progress

2010-05-08 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 08.05.2010 22:48, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: >>> One caveat though: regular expressions are very powerful, but (since a >>> lot of Perlish style (PCRE) in the form of cryptic letters at certain >>> positions meaning something specific, shines through) hard to learn and >>> hard to keep the acquire

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Regular expression progress

2010-05-08 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
>> One caveat though: regular expressions are very powerful, but (since a >> lot of Perlish style (PCRE) in the form of cryptic letters at certain >> positions meaning something specific, shines through) hard to learn and >> hard to keep the acquired knowledge, if one does not use them for a >> lo

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Regular expression progress

2010-05-08 Thread Rick McGuire
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > Indeed, your progress has been great, witnessing the commits and > analyzing the test cases and comparing them to the Java specs (and now > seeing you are going beyond it to add additional useful features, making > the regex package even

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Regular expression progress

2010-05-08 Thread Rick McGuire
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Gil Barmwater wrote: > Wow!  I saw the first post and Mark's reply and meant to respond but... > So now here goes.  Let me start by saying I had no idea this would be as > extensive as it has turned out.  You are now so far beyond my level of > understanding that,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Regular expression progress

2010-05-08 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Indeed, your progress has been great, witnessing the commits and analyzing the test cases and comparing them to the Java specs (and now seeing you are going beyond it to add additional useful features, making the regex package even more powerful). There is one particular feature which I think will

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Regular expression progress

2010-05-08 Thread Gil Barmwater
Wow! I saw the first post and Mark's reply and meant to respond but... So now here goes. Let me start by saying I had no idea this would be as extensive as it has turned out. You are now so far beyond my level of understanding that, at best, all I can possibly contribute (code-wise) is any t

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Regular expression progress

2010-05-08 Thread Rick McGuire
Quite a bit of progress since I sent this. Next piece is conditional patterns, which might take me a little longer to add because I somehow missed them when I made my first pass through Mastering Regular Expressions. This is going to be all new code as a result, and the Java version doesn't suppo

Re: [Oorexx-devel] OS Specific Classes/Functions Discussion

2010-05-08 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
> Here is a perfect example of the kinds of class structure > problems I am trying to get defined. > > Lets define a process class that also includes thread > information. There are 3 OS APIs involved. > > getpid > getppid > gettid > > Lets say we want to define a generic class first and then