From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5e4723a0ca5cb1fbbf4987dfebba8713@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:36:03 +0100 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 regexp Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0495f7fe-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >Of course, it broke down somewhat because the language of strings >necessarily all that well suited to describing trees whose elements >come from a completely different domain, but I still think the idea >has some merit. This was in 2003; I gather things like that are now >beginning to become somewhat common elsewhere. there are several varieties of tree automata that are better suited to working with trees.