nearley Docs improvement: what do the colons mean? ":"

Docs improvement: what do the colons mean? ":"

Open vladinator1000 opened this issue 11 months ago • 2 comments

I was reading the vocabulary docs and saw this example

number -> [0-9]:+

What do the colons and plus mean?

Jul 26 '23 20:07 vladinator1000

:+ is Kleene plus from Regular expressions meaning "appearing one or more times"

:* is Kleene star meaning "appearing zero or more times"

Oct 02 '23 16:10 DenverCoder1

:? - "appearing zero or one times"

Mar 30 '24 19:03 TekuConcept