Re: Alternative Syntax for Regular Expressions?

jenglish@flightlab.com (Joe English)
12 Oct 2001 00:18:51 -0400

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From: jenglish@flightlab.com (Joe English)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 12 Oct 2001 00:18:51 -0400
Organization: Advanced Rotorcraft Technology
References: 01-10-029
Keywords: lex
Posted-Date: 12 Oct 2001 00:18:50 EDT

Jon Forrest wrote:
>I've been looking at some pretty hairy regular expressions (in Perl)
>recently that are virtually unreadable. The thought crossed my mind
>that maybe there are some alternatives to classic regular expression
>syntax out there. Note that I'm only talking about the syntax - it's
>hard to beat the semantics of regular expressions.


Olin Shivers devised an S-expression based regular expression package
for Scheme: see <URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/~shivers/sre.txt >


--Joe English


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