Article View: alt.lang.teco
Article #1Religious question -- negative arguments for S
From: Dale R. Worley
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 18:58
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 18:58
10 lines
881 bytes
881 bytes
If one searches backwards (using a negative argument to S), is the point left at the beginning of the string (so that -Sstring$ when executed repeatedly finds successive occurrences backwards), or is the point left at the end of the string (as when S searches forward)? Dale Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu -- Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<DRW.92Sep8135859@nevanlinna.mit.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!math.mit.edu!drwShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: alt.lang.teco Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!math.mit.edu!drw From: drw@nevanlinna.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) Subject: Religious question -- negative arguments for S Message-ID: <DRW.92Sep8135859@nevanlinna.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: nevanlinna.mit.edu Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:58:59 GMT Lines: 10