Frugal Operators

[Aphexus]

Is there any way to simplify having to qualify greedy operators so a proper match occurs:

.* <--- Matches everything
.* 'x' <--- Matches everything 'x' is pointless as .* consumes all x's
(!'x' .)* <--- qualified to only match on non-'x'

The qualification is necessary but overcomplicates things.

It would be nice if one could write

.* 'x'

and the next rule(group if or'ed) is checked automatically.

This is a common occurrence because most greedy matches have some type of termination(e.g., "'s for strings, brackets for arrays, etc).

If Pegged can't do this easily maybe a new operator symbol could be created to handle it?

.** 'x'

would match all characters and terminating when 'x' is found.