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| author | Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> | 1997-02-26 14:07:57 -0300 |
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| committer | Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> | 1997-02-26 14:07:57 -0300 |
| commit | bbf1b3060a1aa4e5ec3235a560d3d054457e957d (patch) | |
| tree | d11298d85982864651660c7146f400165987be01 /manual.tex | |
| parent | 8b7f271ea2045ec698f994c1f141a38c6eb71a9f (diff) | |
| download | lua-github-bbf1b3060a1aa4e5ec3235a560d3d054457e957d.tar.gz | |
small correction.
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -% $Id: manual.tex,v 1.26 1997/01/23 16:17:53 roberto Exp roberto $ +% $Id: manual.tex,v 1.27 1997/02/21 15:19:37 roberto Exp roberto $ \documentstyle[fullpage,11pt,bnf]{article} @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Waldemar Celes \tecgraf\ --- Departamento de Inform\'atica --- PUC-Rio } -\date{\small \verb$Date: 1997/01/23 16:17:53 $} +\date{\small \verb$Date: 1997/02/21 15:19:37 $} \maketitle @@ -1718,10 +1718,12 @@ A character class followed by \verb'*' reads until a character that does not belong to the class, or end of file; since it can match a sequence of zero characteres, it never fails.% \footnote{ -Notice that this behaviour is different from regular pattern matching, +Notice that the behavior of read patterns is different from +the regular pattern matching behavior, where a \verb'*' expands to the maximum length {\em such that\/} the rest of the pattern does not fail. -Therefore, there is no need for backtracking the reading. +With the read pattern behavior +there is no need for backtracking the reading. } A pattern item may contain sub-patterns enclosed in curly brackets, |
