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[docs/ROADMAP] updated wrt nqp-rx
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Carl Masak committed Oct 20, 2009
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Large-scale tasks
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A. PGE refactors: The Parrot Grammar Engine (PGE) will be
undergoing some significant refactoring in summer 2009; these
refactors will provide the ability to implement protoregexes
and longest token matching. The goal is to get something that
is much closer to what is being used to develop STD.pm .
Internally these refactors will likely involve a new operator
precedence parser and grafting DFA capabilities to the existing
regex engine. Patrick Michaud is leading this development.
A. PGE refactors: The Parrot Grammar Engine (PGE) is currently
being replaced by a parser written in NQP; this rewrite includes
the ability to implement protoregexes and longest token matching.
The goal is to get something that is much closer to what is being
used to develop STD.pm.
The development is being conducted in a project called nqp-rx on
github: <http://github.com/perl6/nqp-rx>.
Patrick Michaud is leading this development.

B. Parrot calling conventions: As of May 2009, Parrot's
calling conventions do not facilitate all of the dispatch
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