From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-12-20T14:00:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternate Regular Expressions?

Ari Brown wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Phlip wrote:
> 
>>
>> So start writing! and research other DSLs as you go.
> 
> Ugh. If I must (which I must). What would you suggest as syntax?
> 
> Also, should I completely try to reinvent the wheel, or create a
> wrapper for current RegExp?
> 
> Man. I need a mentor on this :-|

I would suggest taking a look at Treetop, both as an easy-to-use parser 
generator and as an inspiration for regexp extensions.  But I mostly 
like regexps the way they are.

> 
> aRi
> --------------------------------------------|
> IMO, Arabic has THE most beautiful script.

Ever looked at Mongolian (Uighur) script?

> Poetically, English is extremely beautiful. It's like a language of
> RegExp - except there are no rules!

Uh, what?  (I know that was intended to be funny -- I just don't get 
it.)

> Spoken, the most beautiful language is either French (sorry) or
> Esperanto.

Hmmm...

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