[ragel-users] Re: fexec bug in v5.15?

[Adrian Thurston]

Carlos Antunes wrote:
> On other hand, what is the cost of leaving the scanner and then
> setting up and reentering the scanner? Maybe this could be the
> behavior following an fexec or fhold? Not really knowing what I'm
> talking about, my gut feeling is that this would be easy to implement,
> no?

I'm not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate?

Just to let you know, sometime I'd like to implement trailing context, also 
known as follow patterns, which could be used to solve this problem.

-Adrian