Code Clone Matching: A Practical and Effective Approach to Find Code Snippets — mentioned by elanning

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:05:13 GMT

I recently wrote a little Regex domain specific language that's translated into regular JavaScript regex. I was inspired by CCGrep: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05615 because its syntax looked so clean and yet powerful. Examples of it look like `$# ($a == $1) { return $$$; }` $# - match any keyword, eg `do`, `while`, etc. $a - match any variable. $1 - match any literal. $$$ - match any block (greedy). It's also whitespace invariant, so `if($a==$1)` is equivalent to `if ($a == $1)`. All that to say, I wonder if we're missing out on a variety of "domain specific regexes" for various fields.

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Code Clone Matching: A Practical and Effective Approach to Find Code Snippets — mentioned by elanning