On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Charles R Harris >> <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I propose a challenge: express the dtype grammar in EBNF. That's all. >> >> Not sure I understand. Do you mean just the little string-parsing DSL >> for specifying dtypes ("i4,datetime64[ms]"), or is there some way to >> write EBNF for describing arbitrary nested Python structures? >> >> > Heh, pinning that down is part of the problem. I think a good start is the > string parsing, but dtypes can also be constructed using python tuples, > lists and types. > > The idea is to see if the dtype constructor can be regarded as a parser, and if so, how to describe the grammar it parses. Chuck
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