Clint, Beyond the acknowledgment that part of the code is a kludge and the desire to better integrate with the rest of the language. Has the problem/challenge been defined in a bit more detail?
David ________________________________ From: Clinton Jeffery <[email protected]> To: Matt Oates (Home) <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Sat, August 7, 2010 5:00:39 AM Subject: Re: [Unicon-group] SNOBOL operators - a few questions Matt, Thanks for the suggestion. I believe Sudarshan's pattern type is based on a C language translation of the Ada Snobol4 pattern classes. So, we already have a substantially improved/adapted version of what you are suggesting here, in Unicon's current CVS under an ifdef that is not "on" by default. At the moment our problem is not primarily one of implementation, but one of language design. Sudarshan did his very nice project, Steve pointed out that it was inelegant or unfinished, I balked at making it a standard part of the language until this was resolved, and here we are. It might possibly be the case that the Python community does not feel quite as picky about getting language design right. We will do our best to actually integrate it into string scanning, when we figure out how. Cheers, Clint On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Matt Oates (Home) <[email protected]> wrote: Not sure how relevant this is, but I thought it might be of interest. >I just found that Python has an implementation of SNOBOL 4 pattern >matching http://snopy.sourceforge.net/ written in Ada and integrated >via a Python library module. > >Might have some ideas and code for kick starting! >
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