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Article #6408Re: Language Design, or: is C's Grammar Context Free
From: Norman Diamond
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1989 05:54
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1989 05:54
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In article <9313@dasys1.UUCP> aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes:
>> Consider the following in C, however:
>
>> . . . { T (x); . . . }
>
>> How should the construct be parsed?
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>It would have to be an expression, since anything within brackets ain't a
>decleration. This isn't Pascal kiddees, all functions are global.
Since Micha Berger is so convinced of C's superiority, maybe he should
learn it. Anything within brackets is a declaration until the end of
the declarations, and then statements (expressions) until the closing
bracket. This isn't Pascal kiddee; intuition and aesthetics are not
welcome here.
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
The above opinions are my own. | Why are programmers criticized for
If they're also your opinions, | re-inventing the wheel, when car
you're infringing my copyright. | manufacturers are praised for it?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!kddlab!titcca!sragwa!wsgw!socslgw!diamond!diamond From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Language Design, or: is C's Grammar Context Free Keywords: BNF, Grammars, Silliness Message-ID: <10162@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> Date: 13 Apr 89 05:54:52 GMT References: <5200040@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <12443@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <920@m10ux.ATT.COM> <9313@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: news@csl.sony.JUNET Reply-To: diamond@diamond. (Norman Diamond) Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization Lines: 20