30 Jul
2001
30 Jul
'01
8:56 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:24:32AM +0200, Thomas Wouters wrote:
Parrot types ? The differences in the regex engine; in Python, regular expressions are optional. Also, the Perl engine has some features SRE
If regex opcodes form part of the basic VM, would the main loop end up looking like the union of ceval.c and pypcre.c/_sre.c? The thought is too ghastly to contemplate, though a little part of me [*] would like to see it. --amk [*] "Taking it in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. Only monkeys parade with it." C.G. Jung, in _The Integration of the Personality_. (1939)