Re: EBNF

2006-03-08 Thread Akim Demaille
sometimes I really feel like writing rules like this: Rule: (A | B) C D Which would allow A C D or B C D. What is the reason to that such constructs are not possible? Simply because nobody has implemented it. I think some grads at Berkeley made a Bison version with such constructs.

Re: EBNF

2006-03-08 Thread Hans Aberg
I will post an outline of a proposal of EBNF for Bison to the Bug- Bison list, where Bison development issues are better discussed. On 8 Mar 2006, at 08:43, Akim Demaille wrote: sometimes I really feel like writing rules like this: Rule: (A | B) C D Which would allow A C D or B C D. What