Re: Extended BNF?

2009-06-28 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 26 juin 09 à 00:20, Paul Hilfinger a écrit : Has anyone considered adding extended BNF to Bison? I refer to things like A. p : a? ; B. p : a ( b | c ) d ; C. p : a ( ',' a )* D. p : a+ and so forth. Hi Paul, Yes, this has been considered several times, but each

Re: Extended BNF?

2009-06-28 Thread Hans Aberg
On 28 Jun 2009, at 14:26, Akim Demaille wrote: Has anyone considered adding extended BNF to Bison? I refer to things like A. p : a? ; B. p : a ( b | c ) d ; C. p : a ( ',' a )* D. p : a+ and so forth. There are numerous questions to answer, mostly involving semantic

Re: Extended BNF?

2009-06-26 Thread Hans Aberg
On 26 Jun 2009, at 00:20, Paul Hilfinger wrote: Has anyone considered adding extended BNF to Bison? We discussed it back in 2006, on this list I think, and I posted the formulas here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2006-03/msg00013.html But I don't think