Interperter pattern for regular expression

[gast128]

Dear all,

I was looking for a c++ implementation of regular expressions using
the Interpreter Design Pattern. GOF only references a Smaltalk
implementation which I can not read :(.

Does anyone know a link besides the cuj january 2003 article ('A
Different Interpretation of the Interpreter Design Pattern'). I am
especially stuck with the context object, since all these regular
expression operators seems to generate different possible input
states.

Wkr,
me

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* ga*****@hotmail.com:

Dear all,

I was looking for a c++ implementation of regular expressions using
the Interpreter Design Pattern. GOF only references a Smaltalk
implementation which I can not read :(.

Figuring out what you're asking about took some Googling. A trivial
concept with a misleading name. The point of patterns was to name them
authoritatively so we could all know what others are talking about or at
least look it up in a few mouse-clicks, but either it didn't turn out
that way, or I'm atypical, not a compulsive pattern name memorizer.
Hah, I remember the name Visitor, because it's so often necessary
provide just the name in explanations to newbies. Anyway, I think it
would have been better if you simply described the problem.

Does anyone know a link besides the cuj january 2003 article ('A
Different Interpretation of the Interpreter Design Pattern'). I am
especially stuck with the context object, since all these regular
expression operators seems to generate different possible input
states.

Don't know if this is different or the same (since /you/ don't provide a
link), but look up <url:
http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/regex_perf.html>, which I
found by Googling.

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[Alf P. Steinbach]

* ga*****@hotmail.com:

On 22 mei, 05:01, "Alf P. Steinbach" <[e-mail]:

>>I was looking for a c++ implementation of regular expressions using
the Interpreter Design Pattern. GOF only references a Smaltalk
implementation which I can not read :(.

Figuring out what you're asking about took some Googling. A trivial
concept with a misleading name.

I do not understand this. The classical book 'Desgin Patterns'
contains a complete section of their 'Interpreter' pattern with a
boolean expression example (in c++) and a regular expression case (in
Smaltalk).

Please reply in the newsgroup, not by private e-mail (unless of course
for personal communication).

This reply posted to the newsgroup and CC'ed to you.

I don't have the Design Patterns book in my bookshelf. I read the book
when it was published. In addition to the Design Pattern book it's also
a good idea to read at last one anti-Pattern book.

>Don't know if this is different or the same (since /you/ don't provide a
link), but look up <url:http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/regex_perf.html>, which I
found by Googling.

It's the same author, but reverse engineering GRETA would be as much
work as learning Smaltalk...

Why do you need to reverse-engineer?

What's the problem?

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Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

[gast128]

On 22 mei, 09:51, "Alf P. Steinbach" <[e-mail]:

* [e-mail]:

On 22 mei, 05:01, "Alf P. Steinbach" <[e-mail]:

>I was looking for a c++ implementation of regular expressions using
the Interpreter Design Pattern. GOF only references a Smaltalk
implementation which I can not read :(.
Figuring out what you're asking about took some Googling. A trivial
concept with a misleading name.

I do not understand this. The classical book 'Desgin Patterns'
contains a complete section of their 'Interpreter' pattern with a
boolean expression example (in c++) and a regular expression case (in
Smaltalk).

Please reply in the newsgroup, not by private e-mail (unless of course
for personal communication).

Sorry that was the wrong link I clicked on.

>
I don't have the Design Patterns book in my bookshelf. I read the book
when it was published. In addition to the Design Pattern book it's also
a good idea to read at last one anti-Pattern book.

That is a totally different subject. I do not want to open a
discussion on patterns.

Don't know if this is different or the same (since /you/ don't provide a
link), but look up <url:http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/regex_perf.html>, which I
found by Googling.

It's the same author, but reverse engineering GRETA would be as much
work as learning Smaltalk...

Why do you need to reverse-engineer?

What's the problem?

So my original question still stands. In the meantime I am designing
it myself, so maybe I do not need a c++ implementation to copy from.