Re: lpeg and terminology

["Mark Meijer" <meijer78@...>]

I've found Roberto's presentation about this to be very informative
(he also explains blind greedy etc). Check out the video:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-08/msg00129.html


2008/9/6 Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@gmail.com>:
> Hi list,
> I'm brushing up on LPEG, trying some things out and wrapping my head
> around this whole thing.  I'm currently going through the docs and "A
> Text Pattern-Matching Tool based on Parsing Expression Grammars"
> paper.  What's tripping me up is some of the terminology that's
> currently a bit fuzzy to me.  If there's a good resource for getting a
> handle on the basic, terminology-wise, I'd love to know about it.
>
> Specifically, what does a phrase like "blind greedy repetition" mean?
> I understand greedy to mean look for a mach until there are no more,
> but blind is a bit of mystery.  Any info appreciated.
> thanks,
> wes
>