[alicebot-archcomm] Concerning adjacent wildcards

[Ernest Lergon]

Gary Dubuque wrote:
> 
> Can we agree that a pattern with multiple
> adjacent wildcards consumes individual words until the last wild card in the
> series? (I hope so.)
> 
Yes.

But it is only guaranteed, that in a pattern like '* *' only the first
star holds one word.

We should, as already mentioned, specify an explicit single word
matching ('$'), which might make live easier.

Ernest

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