[TxMt] Crazy idea: scope assertions in regular expressions

[Andy Armstrong]

On 24 Nov 2007, at 12:09, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>> [...]
>> And I realise that extending RE semantics to grok rich text is a  
>> bit of a big undertaking - but I thought it was a cute idea :)
>
> It’s actually been brought up a few times in the past, but yeah, it  
> is quite an undertaking.


I've just checked out the Oniguruma sources. I guess that adding new  
assertion types is probably beyond the scope of its pluggable syntax  
mechanism. And I imagine that's just the first, small hurdle...

So, more prosaically: support for folding where a language supports a  
mix of recursive and non-recursive syntaxes please :)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten