Re: Alternatives to Regexps

Maurizio Vitale <mav@naxos.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
10 Jul 1998 21:05:08 -0400

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From: Maurizio Vitale <mav@naxos.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Jul 1998 21:05:08 -0400
Organization: katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
References: 98-07-057
Keywords: DFA, Scheme

John Carter <john@dwaf-hri.pwv.gov.za> writes:
> So what I'm seeking are pointers to a far more readable, elegant and
> consistent pragmatic pattern recognition language.


which will undoutbly "have its own major extensions to the theoretic
version and slight differences and complex special case rules".


Olin Shivers (author of scsh, a scheme-based shell) is presently
looking at a more schemey definition for regular expressions. There're
other pattern languages around, especially in the realm of tree
matching that can often be found as part of compiler-compiler tools
(antlr, cocktail etc). But again, each has its own singularities, only
a different set of them,
--

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