April 2015 Archives

A Marpa/Moops powered M4 implementation

Introduction

Introduction

The M4 language is a powerful macro processor, turing complete as well as a practical programming language. It is the core tool behind GNU Autoconf, in particular.

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yet another regexp engine

Just to tell that there is another regexp engine coming out, re::engine::GNU. that will hopefully show how perl's regexp facility is well done, thanks to its perlreapi.

This library will bring into perl POSIX BRE, Gnu Emacs, AWK regexps etc...

The funny thing is that I took the liberty to exploit what perlreapi says: "Since any scalar can be passed as a pattern, it's possible to implement an engine that does something with an array etc...". The idea is have a default syn…

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