Re: [PATCH] Re: Make peg.el a built-in library?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> I am wondering if we may instead just support traditional regexps as an
>> extra PEG construct. Considering that regexp support is anyway built-in,
>> why not?
>
> Dunno.  I wrote the translator for academic interest and for
> learning.
>
> AFAIR not all Emacs regexp features work in PEGs - backrefs for example.
> Or match data handling.

Sure. But if we make Emacs regexp a valid PEG construct, they will work.
It is the whole point.

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