[alicebot-archcomm] Concerning adjacent wildcards

[Gary Dubuque]

Yeah, * * is ambiguous since "one or more" could also happen with the first
wildcard.  It is not clear that only "one" is allowed for that first
wildcard whereas using $ would be a dead give-away.  If we have to count
words in matching patterns, I say count them with a symbol defined to do so!

Epressly,
  Gary Dubuque
  Authoring simple AIML with no hidden strings

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Subject: Re: [alicebot-archcomm] Concerning adjacent wildcards


"Dr. Rich Wallace" wrote:
>
> > We should, as already mentioned, specify an explicit single word
> > matching ('$'), which might make live easier.
>
> Except for those of us who have to revise the documentation :-)
>

No pains no gains ;-)

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