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Re: RE-ASSOC: a question about the associativity of RE concatenation

To: Tom Lord <yyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RE-ASSOC: a question about the associativity of RE concatenation
From: Isamu Hasegawa <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:56:30 +0900
Cc: yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx, yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxx
References: <200204091857.OAA35259@raptor.research.att.com><200204092229.g39MTeX00802@shade.twinsun.com><200204092254.PAA02436@morrowfield.home><200204092340.g39Neua00876@shade.twinsun.com><uelho8ehm.wl@AMBER.yamato.ibm.com><200204100453.VAA03344@morrowfield.home><ubscs855m.wl@AMBER.yamato.ibm.com><200204100635.XAA03735@morrowfield.home>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 23:35:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Lord <yyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Is your point that the language of the spec is poor?  Or that all
> those interpretations should be permitted?

I didn't argue about the validity of interpretations in last two mails.
What I wanted to say is that the left-associativity of the grammar isn't
a rationale of the semantics of regexps concatenations, I think.

Thanks,
-- 
Isamu Hasegawa
IBM Japan, Ltd.

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