From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-06-14T20:59:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16471] Re: Opinion sought: parsing non-regular languages

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16464] Re: Opinion sought: parsing non-regular languages"
    on 01/06/14, Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|Matz: Any plans on including (?{}) constructs in future Ruby regexp
|engines?

It's too nasty for me. ;-)
In reality, it has several drawbacks,

  * it makes regex more complex, which already is too complex for my
    brain to understand.

  * it disables regex routine from being used by something other than
    Ruby.  For example, namazu (full text search engine) and I18N PHP3
    uses this routine.

I wish I could accomplish it by finding workaround.

							matz.