[DGD] Grammar question

[Jay Shaffstall]

I thought I'd been doing pretty well with writing grammars, but have just 
encountered a problem that I could use some assistance with.  I have the 
following simple grammar that demonstrates the problem:

	whitespace = /[\b\n\r\t ]/
	word = /[^\b\n\r\t ]+/
	command: 'write' multiword
	multiword: word multiword
	multiword: word

The goal is to support a command of the form "write *" where * is any 
sequence of words.  This works fine, except when one of the words is 
"write".  So "write I will write" will fail to parse.

I'm obviously not understanding how the grammars parse, since to me it 
looks as if the grammar should match "write I will write".  Can anyone 
explain why this does not parse, and suggest a way around the problem?

Thanks,
Jay

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