Hey Gordon,
No worries, ragel is unique so some confusion from programmers is
expected. You can usually answer these questions by looking at the
precedence table in the manual. Action embedding operators bind more
tightly than '.' and '|' and I think many programmers might find that
strange at first.
-Adrian
Gordon Smith wrote:
> For any other newbies, I think my difficulty was/is understanding
> operator boundaries. For example:
>
> asub_packet = 'cde';
> a_packet = 'a:' asub_packet ':b' ${ std::cout << "crc(" << ( * p) <<
> ")\n"; };
>
> with input "a:cde:b" provides only
> crc(:)
> crc(b)
> ( the "all transition operator" '$' operating only on the prior basic
> machine ':b'?)
>
> while operating on a group provides all characters:
> asub_packet = 'cde';
> a_packet = ( 'a:' asub_packet ':b' ) ${ std::cout << "crc(" << ( *
> p) << ")\n"; };
>
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