On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:37:09AM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > What Dan says. If you're interested, there are at least three options: > > - a fairly well-developed compiler for perl 5 regexes (languages/regex). > > - a less well-developed compiler built into the prototype Perl 6 compiler > (languages/perl6) > > - a set of regex ops in rx.ops, suitable for starting your own > implementation from scratch.
There's a #4 floating around too -- Mark Kvale wrote a compiler for doing benchmarking tests. > Since I'm working on #2, I'd of course most appreciate help on that ;). > It unfortunately relies on a couple of other miscellaneous enhancements > that haven't made it into CVS. If you're interested in taking a look > before it gets into CVS, email me and I'll send you the duct tape I'm > using to hold it together now. I'd like to take a look! (I'm the author of #1, btw, so I'm really just trying to steal all of your good ideas.) I really ought to commit my current set of bugfixes to languages/regex. I'm still struggling with the expression (a)+, though. And I ought to be documenting things better so people can steal my ideas more easily. Question for Sean: are you using the rx ops, or compiling down to regular (non-rx) bytecodes like languages/regex does? I would also be very happy for help with #1 (languages/regex). Although if I look at Sean's stuff and decide it's a fundamentally superior approach (as I did once already with the first incarnation of languages/regex after I saw what Brent Dax had done), then I will happily scrap all my stuff. But that'll take some convincing -- I think there's quite a bit of life left in my approach! :-)
