commit bbf1b3060a1aa4e5ec3235a560d3d054457e957d
parent 8b7f271ea2045ec698f994c1f141a38c6eb71a9f
Author: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:07:37 -0300
small correction.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/manual.tex b/manual.tex
@@ -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,