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Re: regular expressions


recursion regular expressions
David Tolpin:
> Bob Foster:
> >  > Why isn't it done?
> > 
> > Good question. It should be. Of course, the notation suggests to most 
> > compsci people that recursion will be permitted, i.e., that this is a 
> > context-free instead of regular grammar, and that's probably not what 
> > you intended.
> 
> The technique to detect recursions and stop context-grammars early is
> just concatenate. If there is a recursion, the Scheme interpreter
> will run out of space and the validator will immediately report an error
> in the expression.

Bob,

thank you; after thinking about it again, I've added the explicit check
for recursion, it is cleaner this way. And just two lines of code.

David

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