Tim Bunce wrote:
>>Personally, I'm deprecating "regex" and its variants in my own writing and
>>speaking, and trying to stick to "rule" and "pattern".
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> Using "pattern" in general and "rule" in the context of a grammar?
Using "pattern" for the contents and "rule" for the container.
But no
> Not know what a "finite state machine" was, I decided to poke around the
> Net before replying to you. I found this definition:
> ...
> at http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/pattern/dfa.html
>
> This seems rather ambiguous, though, as it basically means that a FSM is
> anything that you c
