From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-05-30T15:08:24+09:00
Subject: Re: cursor-0.6

On 5/30/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > I have made a regexp lib where you can supply your own
> > iterators if you have string like classes.
> >
> >
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/1311/regexp-engine-0.12.zip
> >
> > Maybe it has interest?
> 
> Possibly.  From what I could tell this is pure ruby.  So it
> offers a lot more flexibility than the C Regexp.  But, you
> loose all of the speed advantage, right?  

Yes, its far from the same speed as C.


> For my purposes, that
> was the only reason I wanted to incorporate Regexp - because
> Grammar will be able to do Regexp like stuff - and more.

A grammar class sounds interesting..  
Any examples of usage ?

--
Simon Strandgaard