Exact Grammar for D and Implicit Violations without Documentation

[Basile B.]

On Sunday, 3 April 2022 at 17:37:09 UTC, tyckesak wrote:
> Hi all, is there a definitive grammar sheet for D somewhere? I 
> looked
> through the grammar documentation online and through some bugs 
> on Bugzilla
> and it seems that D tacitly encourages violating the grammar 
> specs in favor of some
> ill-defined notion of brevity,

???

> but this comes at the cost of much needed clarity.
> I would like to try to clean up some old bugs in Bugzilla that 
> have gone stale, and it would
> be _very_ helpful to have a common reference to stick to; right 
> now it looks like everybody
> is just winging it.
>
> Take care and be safe!

I've looked a bit to the [updates in the issue tracker] and it 
turns out that what you actually talk about is not the grammar 
but the semantics. Grammar issues are tracked in [this meta 
issue], and are only related to errors in the parsing rules, i.e 
sequences of tokens.

[updates in the issue tracker]: 
https://forum.dlang.org/group/issues
[this meta issue]: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10233