This package is based on the package 'ragel6' from project 'devel:tools:building'.

Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into executable C,
C++, Objective-C, or D code. Ragel state machines can not only recognize byte
sequences as regular expression machines do, but can also execute code at
arbitrary points in the recognition of a regular language. Code embedding is
done using inline operators that do not disrupt the regular language syntax.

Authors:
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Adrian Thurston