Railroad track syntax diagrams

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Tue Aug 1 14:11:51 EDT 2006


On 2006-08-01, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> Paul McGuire <ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com> wrote:
>> For those who are not familiar with railroad syntax diagrams, they
>> show a grammar's syntax using arrows and blocks, instead of BNF
>
> I've always liked railroad diagrams.

Me too.  The Pascal text we used 25 years ago had a section in
the back with railroad diagrams, and a section with BNF.  I
never ran into anybody who preferred the BNF.

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