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   On 2017-03-29, Hans-Peter Diettrich  wrote:   
   > Am 28.03.2017 um 19:32 schrieb Kaz Kylheku:   
   >   
   >> A nice feature in Flex might be parametrized named regexes:   
   >>   
   >> You know how we can define   
   >>   
   >>   ALF [A-Z]+   
   >>   
   >> and later use   
   >>   
   >>   {ALF}   
   > [...]   
   >   
   > This reminds me of CoCo/R, where such constructs and extensions are   
   > available since decades.   
      
   The above snippet refers to a feature of Lex that is already   
   described in the original 1975 paper "Lex --- A Lexical Analyzer Generator"   
   by M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt.   
      
   It should probably remind everyone of, oh, #define ALF.   
      
   The extension I proposed is on the level of #define MAC(X).   
      
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