Re: OpenToken: Parsing Ada (subset)?

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 3:03:30 AM UTC-6, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> If you trust that the regexp engine is [1]well written and maintained, 
> [2]the expressive power is adequate for your language, and [3]the speed is
> adequate for your application, then why waste resources reimplementing
> the tools? Use them and get on with the interesting work.

While #3 seems to not come up often, #1 and #2 seem to be far more "question-able" -- #2 is especially misevaluated a LOT. (If it wasn't we wouldn't see people trying to parse HTML or CSV with regex.)

> regexp are perfectly adequate for Ada.

Even something like Character'('C')?