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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make peg.el a built-in library?
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:49:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v926w3bs.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6jjc7c8.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sat, 09 Oct 2021 03:31:03 +0200")

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In my on-again-off-again quest to not have to write text parsers myself,
>> I was pointed towards the PEG library (in ELPA), which does pretty much
>> exactly what I want (Parsing Expression Grammars).
>
> I like the idea, and I have some remarks:
>
> (1) Can we improve the introduction in the file header a bit?  I would
> add a link to the wikipedia page:
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar
>
> it explains some background.

[...]

> (4) How hard would it be to parse regexps (or translate  `rx' forms) into
> an equivalent peg?

I had this idea as well -- we've already got "regexps that look like
forms", it seems like it would be a natural to integrate this with rx.
One thing we're not short of here is new ideas for code, but I do think
this would make a lot of sense.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-09 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-25 18:52 Make peg.el a built-in library? Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-26  6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 15:34   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-09  4:36     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-19 15:25       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-30 19:44       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-30 20:34         ` Adam Porter
2021-10-01  8:14           ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-10-01 18:05           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-01 18:40             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-02  3:57               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-02  7:32             ` Adam Porter
2021-10-02 14:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-02 15:13                 ` Adam Porter
2021-08-26 17:02 ` Adam Porter
2021-08-26 17:25   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-27  3:17   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-27  6:41     ` Helmut Eller
2021-08-27 16:57       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-26 10:59       ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-26 15:06         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-26 18:36           ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-27 16:18             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-27 22:34         ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-28  3:52           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-28  8:09             ` tomas
2021-09-28  9:32               ` Helmut Eller
2021-09-28 10:45                 ` tomas
2021-09-28 15:24               ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-30  6:04             ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-01  3:27               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-09  1:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-09  5:28   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-09  8:12     ` Helmut Eller
2021-10-09 12:52       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-10  5:49         ` Helmut Eller
2021-10-14 10:25       ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-09 12:54   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-09 16:47     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-10  4:20       ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-10 21:40         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-10-13  2:58           ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-09 16:49   ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2021-10-10  3:43     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-10  4:46       ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-10  5:58         ` Helmut Eller
2021-10-10 13:56           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-22 16:33           ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-31 23:43           ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-15 23:16             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-07  3:33 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-07 19:46   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-08  6:57     ` Helmut Eller
2022-11-08  8:51       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-10  4:04       ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-10  5:25         ` tomas
2022-11-10  8:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10  8:29             ` tomas
2022-11-11  4:36           ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-08  8:47     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-08 16:18       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-08 19:08         ` tomas
2022-11-08 19:42           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-16  4:27             ` [PATCH] " Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-16  5:07               ` tomas
2022-11-16  5:39                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-16 15:53                   ` tomas
2022-11-16  6:24               ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-16 18:15                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-17 12:21                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-27  1:46                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-27  8:57                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-28  1:09                         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-28 12:16                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-25  1:30                             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-09-25  2:27                               ` Adam Porter
2023-09-25 13:00                                 ` Alexander Adolf
2024-03-24 14:19                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-03-24 15:32                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-25  1:45                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-01-11  7:39               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-01-11  8:04                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-11 11:01                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-01-11 11:32                     ` tomas
2023-02-05 12:10                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-05 15:41                       ` Eduardo Ochs
2023-02-05 15:45                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-05 16:19                           ` Eduardo Ochs
2023-02-05 16:50                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-09  5:44                         ` Jean Louis
2023-02-06  0:33                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-08 14:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-08 14:42       ` tomas
2022-11-08 15:08       ` Visuwesh
2022-11-08 16:29         ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-12-02 20:20           ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-11-08 16:10       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-08 18:59         ` tomas
2022-11-08 19:42           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-11-08 22:03             ` Tim Cross

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