Re: parsing behavior of a subrule without/with a repetition specifier

On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 01:11  PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> Damian> Especially if you have to change the count at some later point, 
> which
> Damian> would mess up any code relying on the type of value returned.
>
> I prefer it the way it is.  (1) may say "match one", which is the
> same as leaving it off, but (1) is closer to (2) than to "". :)

Now, about that  element(s)  vs.  element(s /,/)  issue.

To recap: the first returns an arrayref to a list of elements,
the second returns the last element; if you want all elements
of the second form, use $item{__DIRECTIVEn__}.

How's that for expected behavior?

Marcel

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