From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-08-08T00:15:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternate Regular Expressions?

Ari,

Do  it!
excellent project. even if it fails in the long run, or if you pass  
it off to somebody else.

I like the Rails-like hash-looking idea, of course you would need  
some ordering, so it would need to be some kind of array or struct,  
but it is an idea worth toying with.

On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Simon Strandgaard wrote:

> On 8/7/07, dblack@rubypal.com <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> Anyway -- somewhere out there, though I haven't been able to find it,
>> is a library called Regexp::English by Florian Gross, which  
>> provides a
>> kind of English-language wrapper for regexes.  I don't know whether
>> it's still in development and/or at a point of usability.
>
>
> long time ago I wrote a regexp engine 96% compatible with the ruby's,
> at that point in time. Maybe it's useful to somebody?
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/regexp/
>
>
> -- 
> Simon Strandgaard
> http://opcoders.com/
>