Would you like a Snobol pattern matcher? (Re: Making regex suck less)

[Greg Ewing]

John Roth wrote:

> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html
> 
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/22/exegesis5.html
 

I just had a brief look at this, and the underlying
ideas seem to be a lot like the way Snobol patterns
work.

Maybe it's time for me to resurrect the Snobol-style
pattern matching module that I started on a while
back and never got around to releasing.

Would anyone be interested in this? Its
syntax is similar to that of Plex REs, except that
the primitives are Snobol-like, and it uses a
backtracking matching algorithm that's much more
powerful than a DFA (you can write entire parsers
in it, for example).

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg