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diff --git a/to.do/README b/to.do/README deleted file mode 100644 index 7123c30..0000000 --- a/to.do/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -The contents of this directory are: - - Wilhelms.todo - This guy Gerhard Wilhelms did an exhaustive line-by-line - study of flex, finding a large number of glitches; it's - not clear how significant they are (some have subseuqently - been fixed). - - Wish-List - A long list of cryptic one-line descriptions of various - features people have asked for, or I've thought would be - handy. If you have questions about particular ones, let - me know. - - reentrant - A set of mods contributed by John Bossom for adding - an option to flex to make reentrant scanners. - - rflex-2.5.4-diffs - A set of mods contributed by Chris Appleton for - the same purpose. - - streams - email from David Madden about coping with non-blocking - I/O. - - unicode - patches to support Unicode scanners, contributed - by James A. Lauth. - - -Of these, the ones that people frequently ask about are support for reentrant -scanners and support for Unicode. I haven't played with the reentrant stuff -so don't know how solid / well designed it is. I've sent out the Unicode -stuff to numerous people and haven't received any complaints, so I imagine -it works well. - -Another thing people ask for fairly often is removing the limit on size -of the scanners. There's some mail in the faqs/ directory about ways to -do this by cranking some #define's in flexdef.h, though of course the best -solution would be dynamic memory/resizing. - -By the way, I have translated the core flex algorithms into a C++ regular -expression class (but one that doesn't support the uglier stuff like -yymore()/yyless(), trailing context, etc.). If you ever wind up wanting -it, just let me know. |