On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >You can't explain why "bbbbccccd" matches without making reference to the
> >absolute priority of the leftmost rule. "bccccd" would still make sense
> >(locally) without reference to that rule.
>
> Nope. Nope, nope, and nope.
>
> Th8is /bbbbccccd/ thing, which is completely unrealistic and
> non-real-worldly, says:
>
> find a
> b
> such that this is immediately followed by
> b
> such that this is immediately followed by
> b
> such that this is immediately followed by
> b
> such that this is immediately followed by
> c
> such that this is immediately followed by
> c
> such that this is immediately followed by
> c
> such that this is immediately followed by
> c
> such that this is immediately followed by
> d
>
> If you think that people for "find a b" to suddently mean
> something stochastic, you know different people than I do.
That would be a strange regexp, but I never suggested it. I suggested the
regexp /b.*?d/ and pointed out that I believe "bccccd" is a more intuitive
match than "bbbbccccd". That was the matching text, not the regexp, sorry
if I didn't make that clear.
Deven
