[osis-core] Grain regex

[Todd Tillinghast]

Agreed that str stands and there is not word.

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 5:51 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: RE: [osis-core] Grain regex
> 
> At 06:29 AM -0600 08/13/02, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> >What meaning do "cp" and "str" carry?
> >In the past we had a
> >@char:45
> >@word:12
> >@enum:a
> 
> I thought we had nuked word as being hard to define consistently
> (especially across languages). I also thought we had always had
> functional syntax, like
> 
> @char(45)
> @string(hi there)
> 
> I prefer the functional syntax mainly because it makes it clear how
> to have a multi-argument grain (like char(45, 10) to get length --
> which would be nice). It also would let us make the syntax in all
> three parts parallel.
> 
> Am working my way down the mail, so ignore this if already resolved...
> 
> s
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