On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 03:14:23PM +0200, Web.de wrote: > Am 17. August 2014 13:51:59 schrieb Thomas Adam <[email protected]>: > >.... As it happens I'd already started using EBNF for this,.... > > A stupid question : what is EBNF? I've googled it and found something for > grammar parsing. If so, what tool you thought to use?
Extended Backus-Naur Form: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form BNF is used to describe the grammar of a set of definitions. Look at things like YACC and Lex, for example. It maybe the case when all's said-and-done that we end up using Bison and friends to define our own parser for the syntaxes we choose. Who knows? But that's a way-off yet. I'm just giving you an example of where such notations are useful. -- Thomas Adam -- "Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)
