Re: Schildt
- From: Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:35:15 -0700 (PDT)
On 23 Sep, 16:05, rich...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Tobin) wrote:
In article <h9d7qt$if...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris Dollin <chris.dol...@xxxxxx> wrote:
The issue of whether van Wijngaarden grammars clarify or obscureI have that book!
syntax descriptions is a matter of current debate: what is certain
is that up to now they haven't inspired any new kinds of parsing
mechanisms which can use their undoubted powers of expression.
[Bornat, 1979]
Why am I not surprised...
It's much better to exhibit two page-long type expressions and mention
that they're not compatible!
(Quick, guess which programming language I'm referring to.)
Something ML-derived, I expect. Or possibly XML Schemas.
C++ can produce some pretty nasty diagnostics
.
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