Re: To get things started...

At 08:51 PM 11/21/00 -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > Are we hoping that we can mmap() most scripts, so read isn't hugely a
> >   problem? And sluuuurp the rest in one? [doesn't feel good]
> > Are we going to have "lazy scalars" which collude with the regexp engine
> >   so that if the regexp engine hits the current end more is read from
> >   the file handle?
> > Something else?
>
>Perhaps we could add a mode to the regex engine like:
>
>    $filehandle =~ /.../;
>
>Where the engine itself would do the reading and buffering.  Ok, that
>might not be such a good idea...  This probably never returns, eh:
>
>    $filehandle =~ /(.*)/;
>
>However we solve the problem I hope we can allow Perl programmers access
>to the solution.  This is a very common problem with regex parsers.

Probably the easiest thing is to implement some sort of file-tied scalar or 
something that can provide bytes to the regex engine until it stops asking 
for them. Some magic or other, though, will get us what we need.

					Dan

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