Did you look at the later versions of the manual? I presume this is what you 
want:



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-----Original Message-----
From: Adriaan van Os <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2023 9:07 AM
To: Michael B. Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: EBNF



Michael B. Smith wrote:

> You can get what you want, with some work (since the language diagrams are 
> spread out through the book), from the Burroughs Extended Algol manuals. For 
> example:

>

> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1028024_B5500_ExtendedAlgol_196707.pdf

>

> And you'll have to strip out the "extended" pieces of it.



Thanks for the link, but a rule like this (on page 1-4)



               <space> ::= <single space> I <space> <single space>



is typically BNF, working around the lack of a repetition construct in BNF, 
through a recursive

definition.



Regards,



Adriaan van Os
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