Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: >> .So adding SNOBOL patterns to another library would be a wonderful >> gift to the Python community... > >Snobol patterns were invented at a time when nobody knew anything >about parsing. But Snobol patterns aren't mainly about building parsers. >They were extremely powerful (recursive with arbitrary >amounts of backtracking) but could use exponential time and maybe even >exponential space. Sure. Like any Turing complete language feature. > >These days, it makes more sense to use something like pyparsing. Probably, yes. -- Wir danken für die Beachtung aller Sicherheitsbestimmungen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list