On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:45:18PM +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
(And when I say "we", I mean those us of
know what EBNF stands for
without looking it up, which doesn't include me. ;))
Enhanced (or Extended) [[Backus-Naur Form]].
It's a language for describing languages (much like XML, oddly).
I'm pretty sure there's a BNF grammar for C in the back of K&&R, for
example. There are BNF's for email adresses in RFC 2821 and 2822.
Cheers,
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