From 52c9dda6b02d07e7007b4c6a13cc9c9490ecd90c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:30:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Editorial: Simplify the 'Atom' production

... by merging the two capturing-group alternatives.

(This may be affected by the outcome of issue #1673.)
---
 spec.html | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spec.html b/spec.html
index 2802d081206..9278cce8e9a 100644
--- a/spec.html
+++ b/spec.html
@@ -30328,8 +30328,7 @@ <h2>Patterns</h2>
           `\` AtomEscape[?U, ?N]
           [~U] `\` [lookahead == `c`]
           CharacterClass[?U]
-          [+U] `(` GroupSpecifier[?U] Disjunction[?U, ?N] `)`
-          [~U] `(` Disjunction[?U, ?N] `)`
+          `(` GroupSpecifier[?U] Disjunction[?U, ?N] `)`
           `(` `?` `:` Disjunction[?U, ?N] `)`
           [~U] InvalidBracedQuantifier
           [+U] PatternCharacter
@@ -30354,7 +30353,7 @@ <h2>Group Specifiers</h2>
       <emu-grammar type="definition">
         GroupSpecifier[U] ::
           [empty]
-          `?` GroupName[?U]
+          [+U] `?` GroupName[?U]
 
         GroupName[U] ::
           `&lt;` RegExpIdentifierName[?U] `&gt;`
@@ -31079,8 +31078,6 @@ <h1>Term</h1>
             1. Assert: _c_ is a Continuation.
             1. Return ! RepeatMatcher(_m_, _min_, _max_, _greedy_, _x_, _c_, _parenIndex_, _parenCount_).
         </emu-alg>
-        <p>----</p>
-        <p>In the above algorithm, references to <emu-grammar>Atom ::! `(` GroupSpecifier Disjunction `)`</emu-grammar> are to be interpreted as meaning <emu-grammar>Atom ::! `(` GroupSpecifier Disjunction `)`</emu-grammar> or <emu-grammar>Atom ::! `(` Disjunction `)`</emu-grammar> .</p>
         <p>The production <emu-grammar>Term ::! QuantifiableAssertion Quantifier</emu-grammar> evaluates the same as the production <emu-grammar>Term ::! Atom Quantifier</emu-grammar> but with |QuantifiableAssertion| substituted for |Atom|.</p>
 
         <emu-clause id="sec-runtime-semantics-repeatmatcher-abstract-operation" aoid="RepeatMatcher">