RE: [Groff] String editing?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> My dream is to have possibility to write, for example
> .ds str \*[P:join ' ', reverse split / +/,$G::str]
> to reverse all words in the string str
> :)
> 
> It is may be implemented in theory and I know how, but I'm afraid to
> make troff processor much much slower...  OTOH you may not use it if
> it will be slow :)

May I suggest that you give this a new name, say, `.dsr' for `define
string with regexp' (or whatever name you find appropriate)?  Then you
won't have this problem with traditional packages.


    Werner