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.
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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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