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regexp does not work as documented

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Message #130 received at 192 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: tomas <at> tuxteam.de
To: Thomas Lord <lord <at> emf.net>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
        Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 192 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>,
        David Koppelman <koppel <at> ece.lsu.edu>, Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Subject: Re: regexp does not work as documented
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:18:43 +0000

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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:55:14AM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:

[...]

> Why that last one?  Because then you can probably use the same
> DFA engine as the heart of a shift-reduce parser and (for languages
> that admit such things) write an incremental parser.  (You'd be using
> non-buffer-position DFAs to process token ids emitted by the lexer.)
> You can also use such a feature for things like serial I/O protocols.

...and cool things could be done with process-filter-function and its
cousin after-insert-file-functions (i.e. parse input on-the-fly). Nifty
stuff.

Regards
- -- tomás
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