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Re: Regular expressions

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Subject: Re: Regular expressions
From: David Rush <kumo@bellsouth.net>
Date: 08 Mar 2002 15:23:16 +0000
Organization: Netscape Communications Corporation
Due to propagation problems I haven't seen the start of this...

Michel Schinz:
>       But couldn't we imagine a regular expression matcher that fetches
>       characters from ports as it needs? I sometimes wish I had a "lex"
>       macro in scsh, providing something similar to what the (f)lex tools
>       provides for C (and other languages). 

Bigloo. read/rp and read/lalrp. They're great. I keep agitating those
guys to make a SRFI out of them. Actually, the code could easily be
glommed into scsh as it's all written in Scheme anyway...

david rush
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