Re: Grammer for dBASE III

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From: Clinton Jeffery
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 03:43

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From article <7487@cactus.org>, by statham@cactus.org (Perry L. Statham):
> Does anybody know of a freely available YACC grammer for 
> dBASE/FoxBase/Clipper?

I've heard that some commercial yacc-alikes include a dBase grammar...
(yeah, I know, that wasn't what you were asking).

As a trivial aside, I'm not convinced that the real dBase language (in
all its glory) is close enough to context free to be yacc'ed.  Of course,
practical and usable subsets could be easily implemented.  And I might
well be wrong, since I've used the language a lot but never studied it.

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