On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 02:18:45PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 03:14:23PM +0200, Web.de wrote: > 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?
In any case it is necessary to write the syntax down in an unambiguous way, and that's what the EBNF is good at. Sooner or later we're going to need that, so we better do it right away. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
