Re: EBNF

[Adriaan van Os]

Michael B. Smith wrote:
> You can get what you want, with some work (since the language diagrams are 
> spread out through the book), from the Burroughs Extended Algol manuals. For 
> example:
>
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1028024_B5500_ExtendedAlgol_196707.pdf
>
> And you'll have to strip out the "extended" pieces of it.

Thanks for the link, but a rule like this (on page 1-4)

        <space> ::= <single space> I <space> <single space>

is typically BNF, working around the lack of a repetition construct in BNF, through a recursive 
definition.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os