From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Sat Jul 14 08:41:31 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 14 Jul 2001 15:41:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 32139 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2001 15:41:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Jul 2001 15:41:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Jul 2001 15:41:29 -0000 Received: from m738-mp1-cvx2c.bre.ntl.com ([62.253.90.226] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15LRIt-0004uV-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 16:25:59 +0100 To: "Lojban@Yahoogroups. Com" Subject: the formal grammars' utility Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 16:40:39 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" 1. What use is the EBNF grammar, given that it can't be used instead of YACC? 2. Is there a downloadable version of YACC ordered alphabetically (or in any way such that one knows whereabouts in the rule list to find the expansion for a given node)? 3. Has anybody created a more succinct but unabbreviated (and, ideally, more intuitive) version of the YACC grammar? --And.