On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Lilly wrote:
I agree on this point. However, lexical analysis plus some guessing
will often be good enough.
Lexical analysis is equivalent to using regular expressions
Yes.
(and hence insufficiently powerful)
That depends on the goal. I still think that lexing plus heuristics
is often good enough. For example, it might be good enough for a user
interface to choose whether to display the RFC 2047 decoded form or the
raw form by default (with an option to show the other form in either
case), but not good enough for a gateway.
--apb (Alan Barrett)