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Using regular expressions to parse other data structures (list trees sets etc)

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For example because of the element_size passed back and forth and used to calculate offsets etc, all at runtime.

And as soon as you want to, say, provide a convenient sort routine for your list, or a custom key comparison function for your treemap, you enter the realm of int (*f)(void * x, void * y).