Re: Google Summer of Code

[Jeyasankar Kottalam <gcc at jey dot kottalam dot net>]

> I don't know if anyone is already working on them, or how hard they
> would be to write, or if they are going to be borrowed from somewhere
> else, but if google would pay someone to produce a nice finished version
> of either regular expressions or random number generators (the two big
> bits of TR1 we still seem to be missing), and a whole bunch of tests to
> go with them, that seems like it would only be a good thing :)

Hm... interesting. Would the regex library involve hand-rolling a parser and
state machine? Or interfacing with an existing regex library? I haven't looked
at the actual specification in TR1.

-Jey Kottalam