repetition

• From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:02:56 +0000
• To: ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAEncD4enh-FdZgFBAncDgW0W=ORx1qXR1rhVcbN=H0S=8qawjw@mail.gmail.com>

14 December spec

"A factor repeated zero or more times is followed by an asterisk,
optionally followed by a separator, e.g. abc* and abc*",". For
instance "a"*"#" would match the empty string, a a#a a#a#a etc."

I'm confused. To my thinking "a"*"#"  would match any number of 'a'
characters followed by one hash character.

To me, a#a a#a#a appears wrong. Is zero or more 'left associative' if
that's the right expression? How does the a# repetition match?

Same applies to the zero or one example.

regards


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Received on Thursday, 16 December 2021 11:03:20 UTC