Re: [PATCH] and yet another typo-cleaning pass on the pdd

2002-08-24 Thread Jerome Quelin
On Dimanche 25 Août 2002 00:51, Tom Hughes wrote : > > Some typos corrected in the pdds. > Applied in part. I didn't apply all the changes to make the vtable method > descriptions describe what the method will do rather than what it does as > there doesn't seem to be any point to it. Well, I corr

[perl #16741] languages/parrot_compiler fixups

2002-08-24 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Mike Lambert # Please include the string: [perl #16741] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=16741 > The below patch fixes the languages/parrot_compiler/ code to work again with the new ke

Re: Order of match attempts

2002-08-24 Thread Luke Palmer
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Steve Fink wrote: > In what order should matches be attempted when backtracking through > '*'? > > For example, consider (R|S)* where there's only enough stuff in the > input for two matches of R or S. I expect it to try the possibilities > in the order > > RR > RS > SR