> Regex is just the wrong tool for lexing and parsing Funny; I recently wrote an Island parser that extends Regex to create a token stream: https://github.com/

> Regex is just the wrong tool for lexing and parsing Funny; I recently wrote an Island parser that extends Regex to create a token stream: https://github.com/musesum/Par https://github.com/musesum/Par Quoting the link to Rob Pike's post: > Consider finding alphanumeric identifiers. It's not too hard to write the regexp (something like "[a-ZA-Z_][a-ZA-Z_0-9]*"), but really not much harder to write as a simple loop Maybe I'm missing something, but does this suggest replacing a declaration with a procedure? Oh the horror!