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way to specify 0 or more items from a concept?
  
 
Posted: May 8, 2015

Is there a way to specify 0 or more items from a concept?

As an example… the last pattern fails.  I could add another {~posAdverbs} but it seems kludgey.

#! I’m tired
#! I’m very tired
#! I’m always so tired
#! I’m just always so tired
u: (I [am feel] ![~negAdverbs] {~posAdverbs} {~posAdverbs} ~tired)
 

 
Posted: May 8, 2015
   [ # 1 ]

In this example… why are you tightly constraining the match for padding with posadverbs. Wouldn’t this be ok.

u: (!~negAdverbs I [am feel] *~3 ~tired)

This allows a match with “I am often tired”
 

 
Posted: May 8, 2015
   [ # 2 ]

I see users using a lot of unnecessary adverbs.  I am trying to avoid something like both of these phrases matching…

#! I’m awesome, my cat is tired
#! I’m just always so fricking tired
 

 
Posted: May 8, 2015
   [ # 3 ]

Then you can do your {~posadverb} {~posadverb} {~posadverb}
thing, since there is no repeat count for this. However, if you expect to have this often in rules, you can condense this into

patternmacro: ^posadverbs()
{~posadverb} {~posadverb} {~posadverb} {~posadverb} {~posadverb}

u: (!~nedadverbs I [am feel] ^posadverbs() ~tired)
 

 
Posted: May 8, 2015
   [ # 4 ]

ok thanks for the tip bruce.
 

 
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