> > Also on slide 2: The LHS of a production is not really its name, it's a > symbol. That is, "A ::= B" says that symbol A derives (or produces or > can be rewritten to) symbol B. "A" is sometimes used to "name" the > rule, to be sure, but it's dangerous to think of it as the rule's name. > One reason it is dangerous is that several rules can have the same LHS: >
I always say to myself '::=' is read as 'is defined to be'. So here A ::= B reads as A is defined to be B (which in turn must be defined....). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
