Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-lucy-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 62215 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2011 20:24:40 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Mar 2011 20:24:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 28824 invoked by uid 500); 8 Mar 2011 20:24:40 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-lucy-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 28797 invoked by uid 500); 8 Mar 2011 20:24:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact lucy-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: lucy-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list lucy-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 28786 invoked by uid 99); 8 Mar 2011 20:24:40 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:24:40 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [68.116.39.62] (HELO rectangular.com) (68.116.39.62) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:24:33 +0000 Received: from marvin by rectangular.com with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Px3R5-0005lI-2o for lucy-dev@incubator.apache.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:23:15 -0800 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:23:15 -0800 From: Marvin Humphrey To: lucy-dev@incubator.apache.org Message-ID: <20110308202315.GB22094@rectangular.com> References: <20110308173603.GA21683@rectangular.com> <20110308192439.GB21879@rectangular.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: [lucy-dev] RegexTokenizer On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:35:59PM +0000, Andrew S. Townley wrote: > Based on your answers though, it still seems like this should be possible > using a C++ as C host implementation strategy--convoluted as it may sound. You may be interested to know that Lucy has to compile under C++ because we run MSVC in C++ mode in order to get support for mixed declarations and code. Our dialect of C is the intersection of C++ and C99. Marvin Humphrey