[ragel-users] Re: Action at the Beginning of Starred Expression

[Adrian Thurston]

If you want to modify the ragel source to behave the way you expect you 
can pretty easily. Just remove calls to isolateStartState in fsmap.cpp.

Cheers,
  Adrian

Manfred_Nowak wrote:
>> e=(ax >action)*y;
> [...]
>> What do you know about e?
> [...]
>> e | (any | a at action)*;
> 
> `e' is given as input, therefore I do know close to nothing about `e'.
> I want to generate something like
>     `e >$action'
> and ragel decomposes `e' according to your suggestions---if they are
> detailed enough.
> 
> But this is only one step. As it seems, I might have the need to
> parameterize `>>>action' at least with the character read. In total I
> fear, that my view on finite automata and my requirements are quite
> different from your view and that there is no room for both views in
> ragel.
> 
> Thank you all for your suggestions. I will continue to have a look on
> ragel.
> 
> -manfred
> 
>