On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 11:15:50 PM UTC+5:30, Paul Rubin wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > > I would guess it needs more recoding than explicit compilation! > > Maybe something like http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ > > Unfortunately no python binding so far :-( > > Neat, that looks kind of like lex/flex but with more backends.
Its much more than that. It freely allows mixing of the re and dfa paradigms. Of course its a classic commonplace in CS that these two are isomorphic. However structurally they are very different Of course lex has a state management component as well -- I guess you can think of ragel to lex in this respect as hll to assembly. Also I believe its more efficient than lex -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
