I think Alan Moore wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > The last one rocks. > > How would (or wouldn't) variables be used in the patterns? > > (animal (name /?myPattern*/)) > > It seems the conflict with ? would cause parsing ambiguities. > > alan
I think between the // would have to be a literal regex, in the same way that between "" has to be a literal string; if you wanted to use a variable in a regular expression, you'd have to fall back to a functional notation, something like (animal (name ?n&:(match ?n (str-cat ?myPattern "*")))) --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Science and Engineering PSEs Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
