On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Brent Dax wrote:
: Peter Behroozi:
: # After reading over Apocalypse 5 one more time, I noticed that
: # balanced matches (like capturing nested parenthetical
: # comments ((like this))) had been glossed over in the
: # rejection of RFC 145. What was not even mentioned in the
:
: rule parenthesized { \( ( <-[()]> | <parenthesized> ) \) }
:
: The key to balanced delimiters is recursion. A5 gives us convenient
: recursion; therefore, it gives us balanced delimiters.
That being said, there may well be a builtin <self> rule that refers
to the current rule without having to name it. That lets you write
anonymous recursive rules, or possibly a generic rule that could
have more than one name.
Larry
