Re: Add Files Syntax Problems

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:38:02AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      
>      {} indicates a choice.  You use one or the other of the choices
>      inside the braces.
>
> Perhaps we ought to update the manual to make that clear.  The section
> entitled BNF fails to mention it.

That's a good idea, I didn't realize that we'd missed that.

It would be even better to use different typefaces for literal
text, metasyntactic variables, and operators, but that's a bigger
change and wouldn't show up in Info pages.
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Ben Pfaff 
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