... explain the standard. Why does the BNF term specification-stmt exist? Its only use in the BNF is to collect together a ... However, if so, that definition does not correctly correspond with the ... is more often used to mean any statement in a specification ... a function." Insomuch as the BNF shows that a type-declaration...not a specification-stmt, does this mean that type declaration statements...

... e.g. it hasn't been too difficult to generate a conventional BNF parser as a front-end to Gray. 3. If speed is ..., and Gray demonstrates this nicely. Agreed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's the best thing to do in all circumstances. ... you've got source code available but that's probably just me. Does anyone have or know of a moderately complex Gray application that...

... pointers with C ones. In Fortran, pointer is an attribute. It does *NOT* make a separate type. If the common-block-object has (..., you'll find out that they just come in (via the bnf for designator) as object-name. No special rules about whether it ...it is certainly plausible as a vendor extension. That doesn't necessarily mean that the vendor interprets the above words differently. (But if it ...

... to write device drivers etc... I mean, look every PC's gonna be ... then use it even though it does more than you want. You write...s some special function your OS does particularly well they might do that...Anton Ertl's Grey and Brad Rodriguez's BNF parser both parse BNF, but as I understand it they both use their own idiosyncratic... both parse by whitespace. Traditional BNF code doesn't care about ...

...able to get at them directly. Does any intelligent application programmer *really* ...Lisp has, right? Or do you mean something more? curry (defun foo (... above. dispatch What do you mean? CASE/SELECT statements/expressions? Runtime ... Ruby, you use callcc, which means call with continuation. Call with ...a parser-compiler to convert from BNF or equivalent expression of the ...

....stm "The business secretary admitted it would change Britain's coastline, and mean higher electricity bills." Why does it always ultimately mean we'll pay more? The "fuel" is free. You don't expect electrickery to be... Ion, ex-technical director of British Nuclear Fuels' Former technical director of BNF is called Sue ION! -- Abo

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... This implies for example to allow overloading of words. This means words that work depending on current situation. It's not .... There is no good way to implement FORTH in a BNF- scheme... I like much more the elegance of the stack, for avoid parameters. perhaps is not good idea the BNF-scheme.... the words like DOES> or STATE are for make the compiler, avoid this ...

... Time and avoid search in Run Time. This implies for example to allow overloading of words. This means words that work depending on current situation. It's not unusual that words do so - ... if you want to follow the concept. There is no good way to implement FORTH in a BNF- scheme... the words like DOES> or STATE are for make the compiler, avoid this words. "STATE" is a first kind ...