From 2988080c3277bddfa2a2c4ec7768e748e2d8c20b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 15:18:54 -0400
Subject: Added :tag

---
 bp.1 | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'bp.1')

diff --git a/bp.1 b/bp.1
index 2c53ca6..635f7fd 100644
--- a/bp.1
+++ b/bp.1
@@ -355,10 +355,13 @@ not contain the word \f[B]\[lq]IGNORE\[rq]\f[R])
 \f[I]name\f[R]\f[B]:\f[R] \f[I]pat\f[R]
 Define \f[I]name\f[R] to mean \f[I]pat\f[R] (pattern definition)
 .TP
+\f[B]:\f[R]\f[I]name\f[R] \f[I]pat\f[R]
+Match \f[I]pat\f[R] and tag it with the given name as metadata.
+.TP
 \f[I]name\f[R]\f[B]::\f[R] \f[I]pat\f[R]
-Define \f[I]name\f[R] to be a special tagged pattern \f[I]pat\f[R].
-This is the same as a regular definition, except that a piece of
-metadata is attached to it associating it with the specified name.
+Syntactic sugar for \f[I]name\f[R]\f[B]::\f[R] \f[B]:\f[R]\f[I]name\f[R]
+\f[I]pat\f[R] (define a pattern that also attaches a metadata tag of the
+same name)
 .TP
 \f[B]#\f[R] \f[I]comment\f[R]
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