Hello, PAUSE/CPAN people, After the Parse::Yapp adventure, I'm seriously thinking of writing a flex-like lexer in pure Perl, so it could be easily embbeded with yapp parsers. Unlike Parse::Lex, which is already registered and relies on Perl's NFA engine, it would be a complete rewrite of a DFA lexer, which would provide more deterministic lexing (the order of patterns don't really matter and it would naturally match the longuest expression) and it could input either from strings and files. I'd try too to make it fully OO, so it will be easily embeddable in other modules too. By now it is just a project, but I already solved (on the paper) the major issues, so it's now just a matter of time to write it out (I already get the parser and NFA build partly running). So I would like to register a namespace for it. Parse::Lex would have been the right name I think, but as it is already registered, I'm thinking of Parse::Flex to reflect it's strong relationship whith flex. Or maybe Parse::DFALex. Or Parse::DLex. But I really prefer Flex. Of course it's DSLI would be 'cdpO' and it's short description something like: Generates "à la flex" OO DFA lexer modules What do you think about it ? Thanks for your time, François Désarménien
