👉 A yaws is a term used in linguistics and computer programming to refer to a sequence of characters that are separated by a period (.), but not preceded or followed by another period. In other words, it's like a comma used in English, but without an actual comma. For example: ```python print("Hello, world.") ``` In this case, the yaws "world." is considered part of the sentence and does not need to be separated by a period after it.