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Article #2580Re: Complexity of syntax
From: James Wilbur Lewis
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1991 04:44
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1991 04:44
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In article <11883:Jan502:21:0191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: - [ syntax versus semantics ] -> For -> example, is the restriction that you can't declare the same identifier -> twice in the same declaration syntactic or semantic? - -Syntax. It has no effect on semantics. Gee, all the C grammars I've seen allow the same identifier to be declared any number of times. If you can show me a C declaration grammar that disallows multiple occurrences of the same identifier, but generates all valid C declarations, I'll eat my hat! -- Jim Lewis (computer scientist, and damn proud of it)
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