Re: Wondering what I'm doing wrong?
"David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com)" <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:23:06 -0700
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> On Jun 11, 2026, at 01:44, Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11 Jun 2026, at 02:05, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> the ESRAP parser is very readable compared to the “line noise” of regular expressions. > > So is the sexp form for CL-PPCRE, which I suggested earlier. I assumed line noise was the goal? Yes… except that the language grammar rules for ESRAP are clearly spelled out, while those of CL-PPCRE are not. But with CL-PPCRE we do have its stated goal of acting like Perl, and replete Perl documentation - which applies only to the line noise forms. _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html