Improving std.regex(p)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Ben Hanson" <Ben.Hanson at tfbplc.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>> Lua has an interesting pattern matcher, as it goes more in
>> the formal grammar direction to (for example) match balanced parenthesis 
>> etc.
>
> That's cool. That's something I've often wanted in regexes (It would be 
> great for defining lever tokens in a grammar-definition language), and 
> though I'm no FSA or regex expert, it always seemed like something 
> entirely doable without having to resort to a full-blown LL or LR parser.
>

That's "...defining lexer tokens...", not "...defining lever tokens...", of 
course.