From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-04-17T00:42:23+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: regular expressions


> > It seems to me you might like this:
> > http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mdschneider/ruby/index.html#REGTREE
> > ----------------------------
>
> Hmmm...  I really like what he has to say on his webpage, but that is just
> *way* too verbose.

Very interesting. Refer to the post I just made
replying to Arthur Chance.

This is in some ways similar to my idea. But I
agree, I find it a little verbose.

I would have done it something like this:

  myreg = RegexLang.new(<<EOF)
  # This would be a full-featured regex
  # language "script" with keywords instead
  # of punctuation; comments allowed; etc.
  blah blah blah...
  EOF

  myreg.is_a? Regexp    # true

  # And so on...


But again, someone said Rockit was a better
way to go. YMMV.

Cheers,
Hal