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Melody 0.19.0 | A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] fubo 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but can it go the other way — turn a regexp string into a parse tree and then into Melody syntax?

Or, at least, the equivalent of CL-PPCRE's parse-string?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not supported yet but is planned (see the "reverse compiler" feature in the README)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sounds like it would make an amazing VSCode extension

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Awesome idea, will definitely take it into consideration when that feature is available. Melody actually has a VSCode extension with highlighting and snippets, could be added to that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think it makes little sense to have another programming language to create a regex but it sounds like a great regex inspect tool.

Keep everything in regex, want to change something complicated? You can translate it into this language, tweak it, then translate it back!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

maybe it makes sense if you're working on a project that uses a ton of different regexes and really depends on them, idk what kind of project that would be though

maybe an html parser or web browser? /s

seriously though this would be cool in a compiled language if it's built in, but adding another build step to transpile your regexes might be a bit annoying especially if you're using an interpreted language

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It make sense in any project that created by more than one person I suppose.