From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2007-08-07T20:01:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternate Regular Expressions?

Ari Brown wrote:
> Is there an alternate RegExp "language" to the current one in Ruby
> and Perl?

Snobol4 pattern are now available as a Python library. It should be 
possible to port it to Ruby. I don't think that the implementation is 
complete, because I didn't see the possibility of recursive pattern 
definitions, which give Snobol4 the extreme power.

Infos

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/7217 (Snobol4 in 
Python)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL (has some links)

Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner
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