Re: specifying semantics, was Formatting of Language LRMs

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From: "lpsantil@gmail.com" <lpsantil@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:12:49 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 14-06-010 14-06-023
Keywords: semantics
Posted-Date: 24 Jun 2014 17:04:52 EDT
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On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 2:19:05 AM UTC-7, seim...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there something for semantics as BNF is for grammars ?
>
> What do the books on type systems, lambda calculus, etc, teach and


You mention type systems and their analysis is one other formalism.
Another I thought of which is maybe an odd edge case are PEGs (Parsing
Expression Grammars). They are non-ambiguous grammars and their
semantics are limited/defined in the "mother" language. However, I
would argue that going from the semantics in a PEG to general semantic
"text/word/explanation" would be very difficult.


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