From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-04-24T14:34:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Announcing Reg 0.4.0

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, vikkous wrote:

> I would like to announce the first version, 0.4.0, of Reg, the Ruby
> Extended Grammar. Reg is a library for pattern matching in ruby data
> structures. Reg provides Regexp-like match and match-and-replace for
> all data structures (particularly Arrays, Objects, and Hashes), not
> just Strings.

Can it also match on IO ? I'm particularly thinking of a stream=20
implementation that supports illimited pushback of characters...

Because if it does, then you've got a lexer system that is also good as=20
something else than just a damn lexer.

And by making regexps unified with the rest of the language, it brings=20
Ruby closer to the Icon language, isn't it?

Anyhow: Congratulations!

(this is really something I wish had existed in 2001 or so).

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