Read pattern as string

[bvssvni]

Sometimes you want to match over a pattern of rules and use it as a string.

Examples of usage:

• Code generation (part of the syntax rules describe a pattern for another language)
• Doc comments (follows a pattern but is not processed at the first stage of parsing)

[bvssvni]

One idea: Allow meta data on sequence and select rules.

// sequence
[a b c]:"foo"
// select
{a b c}:"foo"

[bvssvni]

In the case of comments, this text includes the special characters, so their meaning becomes application specific:

// includes `//` and `/* ... */` in "text".
1 comment = {multi_line_comment ["//" ..."\n"?]}:"text"

[bvssvni]

Another idea is to pass it to another rule.