Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> What's wrong with regexes?
>>
>> They don't handle recursion.
>
> Neither do plain-old strings. But regexes will get you farther than plain 
> strings before needing to resort to customized lexing.
>
> But I'm a big data-driven fan anyway. If you're not than I can see why it 
> wouldn't seem as appealing as it does to me.
>
> In any case, if I have a chance I might see about adapting my Goldie ( 
> www.dsource.org/projects/goldie ) library to more Phobos-friendly 
> requirements. It's already a fully-usable lexer/parser (and the 
> lexer/parser parts can be used independantly), with a complete grammar 
> description language and I already have misc related tools written. And 
> it's mostly working on D2 already (just need the next DMD because it has a 
> fix for a bug that's a breaker for one of the tools). So if I can get it 
> into a state more suitable for Phobos then that might end up putting 
> things ahead of where they would be if someone just started from scratch. 
> The initial versions might not be completely Phobos-ified, but it could 
> definitely get there (especially if I had some guidance from people with 
> more Phobos2 experience than me). Would Walter & co be interested in this? 
> If not, I won't bother, but if so, then I may give it a shot.
>

And FWIW, I was already thnking about making some improvements to Goldie's 
API enyway.