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On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 09:07, Ken Fox wrote:

> Does the following example backtrack into <foo>?
> 
>    rule foo { b+ }
>    rule bar { a <foo> b }

This was the bit that got me on-board. I did not see the need for
backtracking into rules until he pulled out that darn C<+>. Until then I
was convinced that you could just step over the sub-rule in backtracking
and treat it as atomic. Lack of formal education is biting me here. :(

I await the response with interest.



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