Messed up the link, sorry, this one works: 
http://marvin.cs.uidaho.edu/Teaching/CS445/grammar.html

On Friday, July 25, 2014 1:29:59 PM UTC+3, rns wrote:
>
> http://marvin.cs.uidaho.edu/Teaching/CS445/grammar.htm— that is. Very 
> gentle and informal, but dense and informative, covering (E)BNF, 
> precedence, associativity, ambiguity, tips for grammar writing and useful 
> examples.
>
> What I find both useful and amusing: 
>
> (1) the grammar syntax is nearly SLIF, sans the angle brackets; so
>
> (1a) examples can be fed to Marpa::R2::Scanless::G almost as they are; but
>
> (1b) 'grammar' is not described as a thing that can be used easily to 
> 'parse', e.g.: 
>
> A grammar is used to specify the syntax of a language. It answers the 
>> question: What sentences are in the language and what are not?
>
>
> *Parse *is to show how a sentence could be built from a grammar
>
>
> A sure sign of pre-Marpa days when grammar were written mostly as a 
> specification for humans, as was frequently discussed in this group.
>  

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