[ANN] RE/flex 0.9.18 - a Flex-like lexical analyzer generator for C++

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From	Robert van Engelen <ravengelen@gmail.com>
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I'm pleased to share with this excellent compilers group that RE/flex 0.9.18
is released, moving the software out of beta into stable/production status.

After teaching 18 years of teaching Compiler Construction (and writing
technical papers on the subject) I grew frustrated with the lack of progress
with Flex. Flex has C++ bugs, no Unicode, no indent/nodent/dedent anchors, no
lazy repeats, no working performance option -p, outdated documentation,
etc...

A complete redesign for C++ was best, from the ground-up, based on C++ best
practices. RE/flex is released in free open source and licensed under the
BSD-3.

RE/flex is available on GitHub (the repo) and on SourceForge (packaged):

https://github.com/Genivia/RE-flex

https://sourceforge.net/projects/re-flex

If you work with Flex or with other lexical analyzer tools, then you might be
interested give RE/flex a try.

I put the documentation on a perma-link here: http://re-flex.sourceforge.net

Cheers

- Prof. Robert van Engelen

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[ANN] RE/flex 0.9.18 - a Flex-like lexical analyzer generator for C++ Robert van Engelen <ravengelen@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 16:58 -0700
  Re: [ANN] RE/flex 0.9.18 - a Flex-like lexical analyzer generator for C++ C Bergström <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> - 2017-03-28 18:03 +0800
    Re: [ANN] RE/flex 0.9.18 - a Flex-like lexical analyzer generator for C++ Kaz Kylheku <336-986-7787@kylheku.com> - 2017-03-28 17:32 +0000
      Re: [ANN] RE/flex 0.9.18 - a Flex-like lexical analyzer generator for C++ Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2017-03-29 02:13 +0200
        Re: [ANN] RE/flex 0.9.18 - a Flex-like lexical analyzer generator for C++ Kaz Kylheku <336-986-7787@kylheku.com> - 2017-03-29 06:42 +0000

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