Re: [O] Another gsoc idea -- ragel

[Thorsten]

Rustom Mody <address@hidden> writes:

> Ragel http://www.complang.org/ragel/ is a tool that integrates regular
> expressions and state machines under one umbrella.
> It has backends currently for C, C++, Objective-C, D, Java and Ruby. 
> I do not think having an elisp backend would be a very big task.
>
> After that (in my estimate) org-mode code would (could) become half as
> long and twice as fast -- at least those sections that are heavily
> regex oriented

I took the freedom to add your (slightly modified) proposal to the GSoC
2012 ideas page:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/gsoc2012/orgmode-gsoc2012-ideas.html

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten