From: Paul Overell (paulo@turnpike.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 12:21:19 CST
In message <200202151621.g1FGLkE05763@jefferson.patriot.net>, "Shmuel
(Seymour J.) Metz" <Shmuel+gen@patriot.net> writes
>
>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.
>
The draft should be, and claims to be, using ABNF, not a W-grammar. The
ABNF grammar is incomplete.
>[1] The ALGOL-68 grammar was not properly commented. Blame the
>authors, not the notation.
>
>
I expect Charles might have views on that :)
Regards
-- Paul Overell T U R N P I K E