leftop gotcha

Here's a gotcha that I didn't find documented:

I used the lazy leftop syntax in a rule like this:

         list: token1 element(s /,/) token2

and wanted to get a list of all the elements that were matched, so
I assumed $item{element} would contain it. However, that only
contains the *last* element that was matched. That's because
internally the above syntax is converted to a <leftop> directive
(you can see that if you use trace the build), and that is really
what you need:

         $item{__DIRECTIVE1__}

Marcel

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