[osis-core] Grain regex

[Todd Tillinghast]

So would both ch and str be followed by [ and ] or just str?

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:owner-osis-
> core@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Steve DeRose
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:03 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: RE: [osis-core] Grain regex
> 
> At 02:56 PM -0600 08/13/02, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> >
> >
> >Isn't the string everything after the : until the end of the
reference
> >OR until the - in the case of the first value in a range reference.
> 
> Could -- but that makes the syntax non-extensible;  and undelimited
> strings make me nervous...
> 
> >
> >How would we know when the number ends for the ch:number case?  Same
> >rules.  Neither case requires [ ] to know when the start and end are.
> >
> >Todd
> 
> True; at the moment. But it seems cleaner to me to throw in the () or
> [], because
> 
> a) it makes the three parts (work/id/grain) parallel
> 
> b) it allows for later adding grains with >1 parameter, or adding
> length or other parameters to existing grains
> 
> c) it makes it clearer what the scope is in range references, so the
> '-' is less prone to look like it's part of the grain syntax
> 
> d) it makes the scope of the grain parameter visually obvious
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
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