Re: ISO standard BNF

Sven.Hartrumpf@FernUni-Hagen.de
15 Apr 2004 12:28:04 -0400

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From: Sven.Hartrumpf@FernUni-Hagen.de
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Apr 2004 12:28:04 -0400
Organization: FernUni Hagen
References: 04-04-033
Keywords: syntax
Posted-Date: 15 Apr 2004 12:28:04 EDT

A Johnstone <adrian@sartre.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk> writes:


> There is an ISO standard EBNF (ISO/IEC 14977:1996(E), see
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-14977.pdf).
> It contains some unhappy features, such as the use of , as
> a concatenation operator and allowing nonterminal names with
> spaces in them.


Agreed. I never use spaces inside nonterminal names (only _ if
needed) in order to reduce confusion. The , as concatenator
is not such a bad idea (after writing some ISO EBNF grammars).


> Has anybody ever used this version of EBNF,


Yes.


> or ever seen it used in a book or paper?


Unfortunately, many people use their own variant of BNF.
But I have seen ISO EBNF specifications in some technical documents.


Greetings
Sven
--
Dr. Sven Hartrumpf
Computer Science VII
University of Hagen
58084 Hagen - Germany

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