From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Chris Torek <torek@elf.torek.net>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] RegExp decision for meta characters: Circumflex
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 11:03:52 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210918010352.GR59580@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202109172040.18HKePMD009565@elf.torek.net>
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On Friday, 17 September 2021 at 13:40:25 -0700, Chris Torek wrote:
> Also worth noting, though the precise history predates my own
> experience: it's common in grammar theory to use `$` as the end
> symbol. Was this from REs using `$` as an end symbol as well,
> or did REs adopt `$` from here, or ...?
Weren't there programming languages that used $ as a statement
terminator instead of ;?
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-18 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-17 16:40 Douglas McIlroy
2021-09-17 20:40 ` Chris Torek
2021-09-18 1:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2021-09-18 1:23 ` Bakul Shah
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2021-09-17 8:52 markus schnalke
2021-09-17 9:32 ` Rob Pike
2021-09-17 9:32 ` Rob Pike
2021-09-17 10:10 ` markus schnalke
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