From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 09:47:59 CST
In <VmhkfRD59Na8QAx+@pillar.turnpike.com>, on 02/12/2002
at 09:25 AM, Paul Overell <paulo@turnpike.com> said:
>None of the drafts have ever contained the collected syntax. It was
>only when you posted the collect syntax here that I realized that
>syntax was incomplete and was instead relying on readers to use your
>template scheme to generate the missing productions.
If the syntax description includes all of the required templates then
it is not incomplete. There's nothing wrong with a W-grammar if[1] it
is properly commented.
[1] The ALGOL-68 grammar was not properly commented. Blame the
authors, not the notation.
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