Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id PAA17950; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:01:58 -0500 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (bulk_mailer v1.4); Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:01:31 -0500 Received: from po10.andrew.cmu.edu by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id PAA17884; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:01:28 -0500 Received: (from postman@localhost) by po10.andrew.cmu.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) id PAA00766 for drums@cs.utk.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:01:22 -0500 Received: via switchmail; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:01:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from hogtown.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:00:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from hogtown.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:00:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from BatMail.robin.v2.14.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.hogtown.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c.411 via MS.5.6.hogtown.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c_411; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:00:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:00:45 -0500 (EST) From: John Gardiner Myers To: drums@cs.utk.edu Subject: Re: specials In-Reply-To: <19960314190212.9048.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu> References: <19960314190212.9048.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu> djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes: > So rewrite it: > > phrase ::= *( atom / quoted-string / "." ) > > That wasn't so bad, was it? That isn't correct. It doesn't deal with the fact that a single SPACE exists between successive words in a phrase, and this SPACE is part of the content of the phrase. When you have an unquoted dot in a phrase, it may or may not have a SPACE between it and an ajacent token. -- _.John G. Myers Internet: jgm+@CMU.EDU LoseNet: ...!seismo!ihnp4!wiscvm.wisc.edu!give!up