On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Eric Liao wrote:

> >Yeah, its great. Do you know if it is general (ie. you can apply operators
> >(?/+/*) to sequences of symbols and nest them or if they only applies to
> >individual symbols? (rockit has the latter but not the former)
> 
> Generally speaking, the repetition modifiers ? + * should be able to
> apply to a group of symbols and rules in parentheses (ANTLR grammar
> and Perl's parse::recDescent both allow this).  This is a very
> important feature to have to make grammars possible to write.  Without
> it, you'll have to add *a lot* of intermediate rules to compensate for
> the lack of this feature.
> 
I agree. The reasons its not in rockit is:
   1, lazyness ;-)
   2, I'm not sure it doesn't mess up the AST name specifying. However,
      there are probably solutions to this so shouldn't stop
      me. Probably be in there...

Regards,

Robert