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

[Carlos Antunes]

On 11/9/06, Adrian Thurston <thurs... at cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>
> If you were to take the flag-based approach, it would be better to use
> it to make fhold safe in pattern actions by using a variable to indicate
> that after the pattern has been consumed and p is consistent, then shift
> it back one. Though I guess that has the same effect as what you're
> saying. I've never been a fan of the flag-based approach to implementing
> the fsm statements in action code, but maybe I should reconsider in this
> case.
>

Ah! Here's a difference between a computer scientist (you) and an
engineer (me): the computer scientist wants the code to be "pure", and
the engineer just want things to "work"! :-)

Carlos

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