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[Marva Richardt]

Iam trying to make a simple PEG (pegjs) grammar to parse a space separated list or a comma separated list of numbers, but I am clearly missing something fundamental. That is, I want to match strings like "1 2 3" or "1,2,3", but not a mixed expression "1 2,3".

it will parse a space separated or a comma separated list. However, I feel like I shouldn't need to add EOL to end of every one of my expressions... I thought that, when given a comma separated list, pegjs would attempt to match it against a space separated list, fail, and then match against the comma separated list rule.

The alternative num (" " n:num return n)* will successfully match a single num not followed by a space, since the * means "0 or more repetitions" and that means 0 repetitions counts. Once an alternative succeeds, no other alternatives in that set are tried, even if the subsequent parse fails. So that essentially makes the second alternative irrelevant.

When you add the EOL marker to the alternatives, you prevent the first alternative from succeeding unless it matches to the end. In that case, the next alternative is tried. But, as you say, it's a bit ugly.

Here's one possibility. By factoring out the initial num and changing the repetition operator to + (which will not match an empty input), I force the first alternative to fail if the first character after the num is not a space. The second alternative will then be tried; only if that also fails will the optionality operator be applied.

A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language.The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and expression of spatial relations centers around the emergence and evolution of spatial grams, and the semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of two types of spatial grams. The author bases her observations on the study of data from 26 genetically unrelated and randomly selected languages.It is shown that languages are similar in the way spatial grams emerge and evolve, and also in the way specific types of spatial grams are used to express not only spatial but also temporal and other non-spatial relations. Motivation for these similarities may lie in the way we, as human beings, experience the world, which is constrained by our physical configuration and neurophysiological apparatus, as well as our individual cultures.

In writing, a space ( ) is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters). Conventions for spacing vary among languages, and in some languages the spacing rules are complex.[citation needed] Inter-word spaces ease the reader's task of identifying words, and avoid outright ambiguities such as "now here" vs. "nowhere". They also provide convenient guides for where a human or program may start new lines.

Typesetting can use spaces of varying widths, just as it can use graphic characters of varying widths. Unlike graphic characters, typeset spaces are commonly stretched in order to align text. The typewriter, on the other hand, typically has only one width for all characters, including spaces. Following widespread acceptance of the typewriter, some typewriter conventions influenced typography and the design of printed works.[citation needed]

Runic texts use either an interpunct-like or a colon-like punctuation mark to separate words. There are two Unicode characters dedicated for this: U+16EB RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION and U+16EC RUNIC MULTIPLE PUNCTUATION.

There has been some controversy regarding the proper amount of sentence spacing in typeset material. The Elements of Typographic Style states that only a single word space is required for sentence spacing.[21] Psychological studies suggest "readers benefit from having two spaces after periods."[22]

The International System of Units (SI) prescribes inserting a space between a number and a unit of measurement (the space being regarded as an implied multiplication sign) but never between a prefix and a base unit; a space (or a multiplication dot) should also be used between units in compound units.[23]

Sometimes a narrow non-breaking space or non-breaking space, respectively, is recommended (as in, for example, IEEE Standards[25] and IEC standards[26]) to avoid the separation of units and values or parts of compounds units, due to automatic line wrap and word wrap.

In written English (mainly online) I often come across sentences ending with a question or an exclamation mark with a space before it. Is it always just an error or a typo? Or there are cases when it is a correct English, for example after closing parentheses or some other punctuation marks?

In English, it is always an error. There should be no space between a sentence and its ending punctuation, whether that's a period, a question mark, or an exclamation mark. There should also be no space before a colon, semicolon, or comma. The only ending punctuation mark that sometimes needs to be preceded by a space is a dash.

People have mentioned in the comments that, yes, in the past, a small (non-breaking) space was inserted before an ! and a ? These must never start a new line. The space is also a small space, very clearly much more than the space between letters of a word, but much less than a sentence-ending space.

13.52 Ellipses with other punctuation. Placement of the other punctuation depends on whether the omission precedes or follows the mark; when the omission precedes it, a nonbreakable space should be used between the ellipsis and the mark of punctuation to prevent the mark from continuing over to the beginning of a new line.

There is so much to love about fudge ... . [I feel the ellipsis before a period is the weakest example because it's arguable whether the ellipsis should come before or after the period, if at all.]

Stack Exchange's parser is pretty good (because of how you use Markup) but on many other sites, especially where the text editor automatically linkifies for you put a space in can be the difference between your link working or not.

In many cases, it is essential for readability to put a space before an exclamation mark! Not there but here's an example: lol ! Due to the font, the space is in fact not needed there, but many fonts leave an L looking too much like an ! to be readable.

The best, perhaps only, reason for one space between end of sentence and its punctuation is for the !, following upright fonts resembling too closely the ! itself. Only other occurrence would be typographical error. Readability trumps convention.

Written language convention mutates. Consider Webster. Allow brief, supporting narrative: I'm a journalist and an English teacher who now abides my students using ONE space between manuscript sentences--not the conventional, PROPER, two. I don't expect generations born into texting, IMs, emails, all things digital, to embrace tradition. With discussion and exposure, on-line users might accept an intentional, rare space before the !. Now, I'll go read "tips on writing great answers." No, we don't always read manuals before assembly . . . .

I am a young earth creationist with a 2 year old son. My biggest concern/question is about dinosaurs and space. Both are nonsensical as described by modern science. Can you share some things about these subjects?

I, too, am a young-earth creationist! It is more than evident from the text of Genesis, as well as the places where the creation account is cited throughout the rest of the Bible, that God created the earth and heavens in 6 days, and that He did it 6,027 years ago. He gave us good numbers that we can trust.

Behemoth was a huge creature, and mightier than all of the other land animals God created. He had a tail like a cedar tree. He was taller than all of the trees. He looked down upon the trees; the trees offered no shade to him. The Jordan River was more like a puddle for him to splash through and ruin, than a river that he could go into like we would. He ate grasses for food, etc.

Leviathan was a reptile that lived in the sea. He was also huge and mighty, with scales that were near-impossible to pierce. It seems that he attacked ships, and was quite the terror to seamen. He was apparently was fire-breathing, etc.

On the other hand, in a straight-up science/history teaching passage, which is not metaphorical at all, the Bible tells us that God created the earth before He created the heavens. So even though modern scientists think they have reasons for believing the Sun and stars came first, and then the earth; I know of a surety that the earth came first, and the Sun and stars came 3 days later.

Christians studied Logic, up until about 100 years ago, when the atheists took logic out of schools. (These anti-Christians did not want students to be able to think rationally anymore, frankly, so they could trick us with their lies!) But during the days of Christian education, logic was one of the most important classes students were taught. And the humble, but brilliant, Isaac Watts produced the book that became the standard logic text used at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and every other good college, for 200 years.

The God of perfect wisdom, truth, and goodness, would never oblige his creatures to be thus deceived [that our senses would lead us to think something is true, when it is actually false]; and therefore he would never have constituted us of such a frame as would render it naturally impossible to guard against error.

This dissertation documents and analyzes the rich linguistic resources available in the grammar of Kwak'wala (Wakashan, iso kwk) grammar for describing location, motion and direction. The research contributes to current theories of polysynthetic morphological complexity with insight from a language with an especially complex approach to spatial relations, while illuminating the role of language in forming cultural knowledge about the physical environment.

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