On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:15:55PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 15:41, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > False. In the first case the group is the whole rule. In the second > > case the group would not include the (implied) '.*?' at the start of > > the rule. > > This was a very unfortunate choice of explanations, since an implied > ".*?" would change the semantics of the match deeply.
I agree, my wording on this wasn't all that clear--I haven't found a good phrase for "the stepping that takes place at the beginning of an unanchored match". And in earlier versions of PGE, the stepping was actually performed by a '.*?' node at the beginning of the expression tree that didn't participate in the captured result. Anyway, we're in agreement as to what :: and ::: do, so I'll propose changes to S05/A05 and we can go from there. Thanks! :-) Pm
