From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob')
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 19:43:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8294e097-79d1-3d7b-1d71-80dbbda7c753@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170709223610.8A00D124AE9F@mail.bitblocks.com>
On 2017-07-09 6:36 PM, 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!
>
Last time I transcribed a paper I found typos in the original, so this
isn't without value if done carefully, but it would be more useful to
posterity if they made the transcribed source code public (e.g. github).
--T
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-09 23:43 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
2017-07-09 23:43 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2017-07-10 13:47 ` arnold
2017-07-10 12:38 Noel Chiappa
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