Re: re2c-1.0 released!

Kaz Kylheku <398-816-0742@kylheku.com> writes:
>Briefly, why would you do some hacky regex thing in lex with \1, \2,
>\3, when in the level immediately above yylex() you have proper phrase
>recognition, with $1, $2, $3.


These don't do the same thing. Taking your example from the other
posting, do you want to recognize


2017
-08
/* bla bla */ -
28


as date? If so, do it at the parser level, if not, the scanner.


I dimly remember a case of a lexeme type with internal structure that
was reflected in the regexp, where I then had to write C code manually
repeating some of the work that the scanner had already done, and
wishing for a feature like that provided by the OP. Unfortunately,
and I do not remember details, that has been long ago.


>> It may seem that
>> only a lack of effort prevents developers of lexer generators like Flex
>> from implementing it (as well as fixing the ever-broken trailing
>> contexts [3]).
>
>Lack of justification due to, I suspect, lack of demand from
>sophisticated users of the tools, who use them for their intended
>purpose.


Or maybe just accepting the limitations of the tool and working around
them, without sending a feature request to the maintainer (I didn't,
at the time).


- anton
--
M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/

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