Re: special named assertions

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:12:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The documentation should distinguish between those that are just > pre-defined characters classes (E.G., and ) and > those that are special builtins (E.G., and . > The former are things that you should be freely allowed to r

Re: special named assertions

2006-09-27 Thread mark . a . biggar
The documentation should distinguish between those that are just pre-defined characters classes (E.G., and ) and those that are special builtins (E.G., and . The former are things that you should be freely allowed to redefine in a derived grammar, while the other second type may want to be t

Re: special named assertions

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:59:32AM -0700, David Brunton wrote: > A quick scan of S05 reveals definitions for these seven special named > assertions: > [...] I don't think that <'...'> or <"..."> are really "named assertions". I think that (as well as <+xyz> and <-xyz>) are simply special form