A RetroSearch Logo

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Search Query:

Showing content from https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-11/msg00455.html below:

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

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] From: tomas Subject: Re: Make peg.el a built-in library? Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 19:59:04 +0100
On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 08:10:55AM -0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> >> And that's about the only hint you get. I was trying to parse a
> >> multiword name like
> >>
> >> Eric Edwin Abrahamsen
> >
> > Side note: the division between "given name" a "family name" is not
> > a universal property [...]

> Oh, I've gone down all the rabbit holes...

;-D

And this all because a small bunch of PEGs..,

> EBDB doesn't force this, it
> distinguishes between "complex" and "simple" names, and also allows
> "complex" names that only have a given name, or a list of given names,
> etc. Input can be done explicitly, field by field, or you can just chunk
> a string in there and see what happens. This peg.el adventure is only
> about "seeing what happens" with complex names.

I think we all got that. Still... ;-)

Cheers
-- 
t

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature


RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4