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From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich)
Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob')
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 22:08:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYJjSstR-SWYo6b6pHHqnbueuyktO2t0jJex8M3Q8RJMeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea1394dad1729490d127ed8ebd7611f3d93c4304@webmail.yaccman.com>

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM Steve Johnson <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:

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> The earliest reference is a paper by Kleene in 1956.   In fact, I recall
> that * was sometimes called "the Kleene star" in the day...
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that's how they taught it to me: Kleene closure or Kleene *

ron
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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 [this message]
2017-07-09 22:36     ` Bakul Shah
2017-07-09 23:35       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-07-09 23:43       ` Toby Thain
2017-07-10 13:47   ` arnold
2017-07-10 12:38 Noel Chiappa

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