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Updated GSoC 2014 Ideas (markdown)

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* Model it after re2c or the Ragel state machine generator
* Alternatively model it after Flex.
Here is a sketch of a possible implementation:
* Parse regular expressions into an NFA and ensure the attached Nimrod actions are kept around through the next different passes.
* Translate the NFA to an DFA: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/compilers/slides/LexicalPart3.pdf
* Minimize the DFA with Hopcroft's algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFA_minimization
* Translate the DFA into Nimrod code and attach the actions.
**Desirable skills**: Knowledge of lexer generators. How to translate regexes into DFAs and how to optimize the resulting automatons.