Re: Using functional notation to extend BNF

"Daniel C. Wang" <danwang74@gmail.com>
9 Jan 2007 13:29:45 -0500

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From:	"Daniel C. Wang" <danwang74@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:	comp.compilers
Date:	9 Jan 2007 13:29:45 -0500
Organization:	Compilers Central
References:	07-01-025
Keywords:	parse
Posted-Date:	09 Jan 2007 13:29:45 EST

Bill Fenlason wrote:
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> Interesting, or just old news?

What you've describe seems like a form of vW-grammar.

General vW-grammars are context sensitive if I'm not mistaken.
vW-grammar's were used to define the semantics of Algol-68.