From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2003-12-04T03:20:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Some Regexp

Hello,

> Sometimes an imperfect solution is better than none. To borrow
> (abuse?) Andy Hunt's carpentry metaphor, sometimes something nailed
> together will serve better now than a beautiful piece of joinery
> will if it is later.  This could be a case where "worse is better"
> sometimes.

Excuse me to barge in your conversation, but why don't you talk about 
the correct solution of the [nested tags] problem, which in this case is 
a school-book like simple solution using racc (or ryacc, last time I 
looked).

file:
	# empty production
	|
	file textblock
	;

textblock:
	TEXT1 othertext TEXT2
	;

othertext:
	# empty production
	|
	othertext TEXTLINE
	;

Of course that's just for the parsing. And I realise that there is more 
than one way to write this. What I am trying to say is that if the book 
says you best use this kind of tool, then why talk about imperfect 
half-bread solutions ? The 'perfect' solution is not that far away !

kaspar