Scrooge - a greedy pattern engine for more than just strings
This is a greedy pattern matching engine originally conceived as "regexes for PDL". The concept has been broadened to work for any sequential pattern matching on any Perl data structure. Tools for analyzing different data structures are still being developed.
Scrooge is still undergoing sporadic yet active development and may experience non-backwards-compatible changes. Here is a list of things that I intend to implement, in order of importance:
- Array test suite
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I have a partial implementation of Array data containers. I need to finish a first draft of the test suite so that I can add to it as I create new functionality.
- Numeric Array Pattern Generators
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Scrooge::Numeric provides a fairly complete suite of tools for parsing numeric intervals and building subroutines to test values against those intervals. I now need to write useful array patterns that make use of these tools.
- Scrooge::Grammar
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I have a working implementation for declaring grammars, and which supports action sets and which can be overridden using inheritance. The design needs to be vetted, fleshed-out, tested, and documented.
- String Array Pattern Generators
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I need to figure out what sorts of patterns could be useful for analyzing string data, and I need to write pattern generators for them for arrays.
- Switch to Sub::Exporter for short-form constructors
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There are too many pattern generators that might arise, and too many ways for short-named pattern generators to collide in light of useful Huffman encoding. I need to allow the user to choose context-appropriate names for the generators.
- Scrooge::Hash
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Scrooge has been sequence-focused since its inception, but the machinery could be extended to matching against hashes by assuming hashes have zero length and by applying patters that are zero-width assertions. I need to implement pattern generators that work with Hash data containers.
- Scrooge::Parse
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Treating strings as sequences of characters would let me write a parser using Scrooge. Not that it would be a performant one, but it might prove useful in a pinch.
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