Flython
Christopher T King
squirrel at WPI.EDU
Mon Aug 16 15:11:56 EDT 2004
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Terry Reedy wrote:
> The grammar in the Ref Manual, which is collected together in the above
> file, is intended and used for human comsumption. The equivalent but not
> identical grammar in a source code file is intended and used for
> parser-generator comsumption.
Ahh... that makes sense. I assumed they were one in the same;
ref/grammar.txt was just more readily accessible at the time (read: I was
lazy).
> I don't know whether AST trees exactly match the parser grammarr or if they
> effectively follow a third form, hopefully also exactly equivalent.
A quick glance through Grammar/Grammar shows that it seems to match up
exactly to the AST trees, though I'll have to play with it to be sure.
Thanks!
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