On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Glenn Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:10:08 -0700 Glenn Skinner wrote:
>> It's typical for man pages for grep variants to have a subsection
>> called "REGULAR EXPRESSIONS" whose contents lay out the rules for the
>> syntax of the REs the utility accepts and of how matching works. I'm
>> looking for something similar here. (Some questions I'd hope the
>> section would answer: What are the precedences of the '&' and '!"
>> operators? When the '&' operator is used, if there's more than one
>> common substring matched by its left and right hand operands, which
>> one wins? Can precedences be overridden by using parentheses to
>> group
>> sub-expressions?)
>
> I'll put something together
> it's basically extended regular expressions with some additions
> can the description be a pointer to the extended description
> plus details on the additions?
At the architectural review level, all I care is that the case
materials fully describe RE syntax and semantics. If structuring the
man page the way you propose above does that, then I'm happy. And
assuming that that will happen, I'll give my +1 now (I'm satisfied
with the answers to my other questions).
-- Glenn
