From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Marlow Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions Date: 28 Oct 2003 08:57:54 +0800 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1067302679.586.8.camel@zuul> References: <877k9eobcv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <877k96htat.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <200305050618.XAA10052@morrowfield.regexps.com> <200310242258.PAA04035@morrowfield.regexps.com> <20031027091956.190d8366.dsmith@actron.com> <20031027145433.GA18054@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067302942 13314 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 01:02:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, "Dale P. Smith" Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 02:02:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEIFW-0001v9-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:02:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEIFQ-0004T8-Ah for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:02:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEIDk-0004Mn-0d for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:00:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEIDA-0003mR-QS for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.89.175.40] (helo=keymaster.bobturf.com.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEID9-0003Ws-Hy for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:59:52 -0500 Original-Received: from zuul.bobturf.com.au ([192.168.153.69] helo=localhost.localdomain ident=bobstopper) by keymaster.bobturf.com.au with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEIEa-00004Y-00; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:01:20 +0800 Original-To: rm@fabula.de In-Reply-To: <20031027145433.GA18054@www> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:2339 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2339 Whoa! when I saw "Chomsky" I at first thought of the Anarchist Linguistics Professor Noam Chomsky. I didn't realise it actually WAS named after him. I only really knew of his Anarchist acheivements (being an anarchist myself and all). never thought I'd come accross an application of his Linguistics research. That's made my day, thanks! On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 22:54, rm@fabula.de wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:19:56AM -0500, Dale P. Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:58:18 -0700 (PDT) > > Tom Lord wrote: > > > > > The chomsky hierarchy points to some platonic truth that has real and > > > practical implications for programs. If you stick to the lower > > > levels of the hierarchy, you get better performance guarantees than if > > > you don't. > > > > Got any nice pointers to this chomsky hierarchy? > > Well, here are two introductory links: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky > > and esp: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy > > as well as: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language > > If you're looking for printed references -- any good compiler > book should cover this hierarchy (i think both the Dragon book > and Hopcroft/Ullman 'Introduction to Automata Theory' cover > it). > > hth Ralf Mattes > > > Thanks! > > -Dale > > > > -- > > Dale P. Smith > > dsmith at actron dot com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Guile-user mailing list > > Guile-user@gnu.org > > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Guile-user mailing list > Guile-user@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user -- Regards, Robert Marlow _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user