Am 17. August 2014 15:18:48 schrieb Thomas Adam <[email protected]>:
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.
Thank you very much for the explanation :-)
If help is needed like testing, programming (I'm not that good in C but
writing modules in Perl) shout.
Kindly,
Thomas
