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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:58:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87iq2dt3w0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:23:11 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel> List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129955 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/129955> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes: > "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@Oracle.Com> writes: >> That's the real point, I believe: the paper touts the use of regexps >> to divide text into chunks that match - chunks that are not >> necessarily lines, in order to then act on those chunks in some way. > > Not a good base, I think -- regexps are not really powerful enough to do > the job well. Yes regexp are quite limited. Maybe a simple PEG parser based on packrat, with a syntax sugar for defining one line set of rules? > > -Miles Wojciech