Re: Alternative Syntax for Regular Expressions?

Eric Eide <eeide@cs.utah.edu>
12 Oct 2001 00:15:36 -0400

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From: Eric Eide <eeide@cs.utah.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 12 Oct 2001 00:15:36 -0400
Organization: University of Utah School of Computing
References: 01-10-029
Keywords: lex
Posted-Date: 12 Oct 2001 00:15:36 EDT

Jon Forrest <forrest@ce.berkeley.edu> writes:


Jon> I've been looking at some pretty hairy regular expressions (in
Jon> Perl) recently that are virtually unreadable. The thought crossed
Jon> my mind that maybe there are some alternatives to classic regular
Jon> expression syntax out there. [...]


Maybe you'd like a Lispy syntax? Look at the `sregex.el' file that comes with
GNU Emacs 20.7.


Eric.


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