
diff -r c7009356ddd8 -r c0600f8b6427 handouts/ho02.tex
--- a/handouts/ho02.tex	Wed May 29 13:25:30 2024 +0100
+++ b/handouts/ho02.tex	Thu Sep 19 15:47:33 2024 +0100
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 \begin{document}
 \fnote{\copyright{} Christian Urban, King's College London, 
-  2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023}
+  2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024}
 
 
 \section*{Handout 2 (Regular Expression Matching)}
@@ -389,10 +389,10 @@
 construct the regular expression for $s$ by calling $\textit{der}$ with
 $r_1$ and ``appending'' $r_2$. There is however one exception
 to this simple rule: if $r_1$ can match the empty string, then
-all of $c\!::\!s$ is matched by $r_2$. So in case $r_1$ is
+all of $c\!::\!s$ is matched by $r_2$. Therefore in case $r_1$ is
 nullable (that is can match the empty string) we have to allow
 the choice $\textit{der}\,c\,r_2$ for calculating the regular
-expression that can match $s$. Therefore we have to add the
+expression that can match $s$. This means we have to add the
 regular expression $\textit{der}\,c\,r_2$ in the result. The $*$-case
 is again simple: if $r^*$ matches a string of the form
 $c\!::\!s$, then the first part must be ``matched'' by a
@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@
 (23/Aug/2016) I found another place where this algorithm can
 be sped up (this idea is not integrated with what is coming next, but
 I present it nonetheless). The idea is to not define \texttt{ders}
-that it iterates the derivative character-by-character, but in bigger
+so that it iterates the derivative character-by-character, but in bigger
 chunks. The resulting code for \texttt{ders2} looks as follows:
 
 \lstinputlisting[numbers=none]{../progs/app52.scala} 




