From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-04-17T00:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>

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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
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That's very much like what I was thinking of, too!  I was thinking that we
should also send a binding along, so we could use local variables if we
wanted to.

About Rockit:

It seems like Rockit might indeed be the way to *implement* this, but that
says nothing about the syntax/grammar to use in the heredoc.

Also, this means we could get rid of the delimiters altogether, which is
nice.  The only thing I don't like is that we wouldn't be able to toss a
small one on one line, and we would have to precede them all with:

  RegexLang.new(binding,<<EOF)

or something.


Chris