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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Alex Shinn <alexshinn@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ‘match’ and “k or more” patterns
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:53:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iq2ghxsi.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikKbVssXkdfc=DnKgEJr2xJxsNrbjL1vifqkYV2@mail.gmail.com> (Alex Shinn's message of "Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:18:18 +0900")

Hello,

On Wed 08 Sep 2010 04:18, Alex Shinn <alexshinn@gmail.com> writes:

> "..1" is actually useful - it's the analog of "+" in regular
> expressions, and allows simplifying many syntax-rules
> patterns you see written (elt0 elt1 ...) as (elt ..1).  If
> the elements are more complex patterns this is a big
> win.

Interesting. It would be a nice extension to syntax-rules itself; though
..1 is not a lovely spelling.

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-08 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-05 15:04 ‘match’ and “k or more” patterns Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-06  1:46 ` Alex Shinn
2010-09-06 12:12   ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-08  2:18     ` Alex Shinn
2010-09-08 12:06       ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-08 18:53       ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2010-09-19 21:30       ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]         ` <2083922817.3379621.1285477344869.JavaMail.root@zmbs1.inria.fr>
2010-09-27 21:56           ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-28  1:20             ` Alex Shinn
     [not found]             ` <704726234.3471946.1285636813715.JavaMail.root@zmbs1.inria.fr>
2010-09-28 10:27               ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-10-02  7:13                 ` Alex Shinn
2010-10-03 10:24                   ` Andy Wingo
     [not found]                   ` <2087670639.297243.1286101256715.JavaMail.root@zmbs1.inria.fr>
2010-10-03 12:35                     ` Ludovic Courtès

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