Re: Grammar ambiguity

"Jocelyn Coulmance" <j.coulmance@itecor.com>
19 Feb 2000 00:26:59 -0500

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From: "Jocelyn Coulmance" <j.coulmance@itecor.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 19 Feb 2000 00:26:59 -0500
Organization: Guest of France-Teaser
References: 00-02-015 00-02-049 00-02-063
Keywords: parse

Charles E. Bortle, Jr. <cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com> a écrit dans le message :
> I don't know if you will find this relevent, but the rule you have
> stated sounds much like the Pascal semicolon rule.


Not really. In Pascal, a semicolon is mandatory between two
consecutive statements. In Eiffel, it is not, which works most of the
time but causes trouble in certain particular cases. What I described
reconciles both worlds: no need for semicolons without syntactic
ambiguities.


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Regards
Jocelyn


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