From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob')
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:35:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170709233520.GF57734@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170709223610.8A00D124AE9F@mail.bitblocks.com>
On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 15:36:10 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 22:08:45 -0000 ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM Steve Johnson <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The earliest reference is a paper by Kleene in 1956. In fact, I recall
>>> that * was sometimes called "the Kleene star" in the day...
>>
>> that's how they taught it to me: Kleene closure or Kleene *
>
> For the curious, here is Kleene's paper:
> http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/nnafmc/papers/kleene56representation.pdf
> Kudos to whoever retyped the paper in TeX!
There's also a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene_star
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-09 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-09 21:55 Paul Winalski
2017-07-09 22:06 ` Steve Johnson
2017-07-09 22:08 ` ron minnich
2017-07-09 22:36 ` Bakul Shah
2017-07-09 23:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2017-07-09 23:43 ` Toby Thain
2017-07-10 13:47 ` arnold
2017-07-10 12:38 Noel Chiappa
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