You can never go down the drain...

William Tanksley wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net
Wed Sep 27 14:19:11 EDT 2000


On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:39:24 GMT, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>But nobody can convince me that line noise is the best way to
>talk to a string matching engine -- as soon as you go beyond the
>regular basics (literals, dot, star, ranges), there are better ways
>to express yourself.

I'd really like to see a clean-looking LL parser.  Rebol and Forth both
have them, and they're VERY easy to use.  Of course, LL is generally
slower than regexp, but hey!  It can parse far more stuff far more
naturally, and looks better.

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-William "Billy" Tanksley



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