[ragel-users] Inline scanner

[Adrian Thurston]

Hi Carlos,

Yeah, I remember that conversation. I thought about those issues and a
clear design with good value and a nice implementation never became
apparent to me. Since discussions didn't prove fruitful last time I
think a mockup would be really helpful to hash out the idea. An example
of the new syntax used to solve a real problem paired with the an
implementation using the existing syntax (the classic before and after)
would really make things clear.

Cheers,
 Adrian

Carlos Antunes wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> It's been a while...
> 
> It's good to know you are still supporting Ragel. With that being
> said, is there any chance of having "inline scanner" functionality
> added? We discussed this quite some time ago. The idea is to be have a
> "longest match with capture" of start and stop of the match inline
> instead of having to rely on external scanners.
> 
> Alternatively, what about the ability to automatically jump from a
> state to a scanner without needing a match followed by an fcall?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Carlos
> 
> 
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