Urf!

[swestrup]

Well I is going to bed now. I've spent most of the day writing a quick and dirty regular-expression-based lispoid language. At this point I'm still debugging the basic parser. It would be done now except I want to be able to generate semi-meaningful error messages and Perl's regular expression engine is not being terribly helpful. Now I HAVE discovered that Larry Wall once tongue-in-cheek offered to define \e as an escape that matches everything, even stuff '.' doesn't match (like \n) and its counterpart \E would, of course, never match. Today I needed \E.  It turns out that [^\s\S] is a pretty good approximation, so that's currently what I'm using. I do have a lingering fear (based on the RE debug dumps) that the RE engine thinks there are 7 chars that it CAN match it against.

Ah well, worries for another day, let the fraggles play...