Abstract
In a recent SIGPLAN article [1] a major deficiency in the SNOBOL4 programming language was exposed and one possible solution suggested. The SNOBOL4 language shortcomming, dubbed "the great big substitution problem", involves replacing substrings in the subject string. This article describes an alternative modification to SNOBOL4, which allows replacement of a matched substring of the subject during pattern matching, along with some ideas on implementation.
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