EBNF grammar for D?

James Miller james at aatch.net
Mon Mar 12 21:00:12 PDT 2012


On 13 March 2012 16:47, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 3/12/12 10:36 PM, James Miller wrote:
>>
>> I agree, automatic generation of the grammar rules would be incredibly
>> useful for D tools. It doesn't necessarily have to be in a
>> human-readable format, or even in a specific grammar format, just up
>> to date. We can always have something to convert it into a specific
>> format for whatever we are doing. We are programmers after all.
>
>
> I think being up-to-date is becoming less of a matter now that the language
> is stable. Changes in syntax are already very rare.
>
> Andrei

True, in that case we need to make sure we actually have a completely
up to date grammar for the language somewhere then. All in one place.

--
James Miller


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