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Re: Repitition in grammer

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Am 17.09.2011 04:46, schrieb cv_curious:
>  Referring to Appendix A of ISO/IEC 14882:2011, the following seems to
>  have been repeated twice in A.1 and A.6:
>
>  typedef-name:
>          identifier

This is not the only place of a repetition, e.g. /class-name/ is defined
in both A.1 and A.8 as another example.

>  Is this intentional?

I think it is intentional. Note that the grammar summary in annex A is
sub-divided into several non-exclusive categories, like "keywords" and
"declarations" and "classes", etc.

>  Is their any 'officially' maintained version
>  available in plain text format and proper BNF notation meant for
>  writers of parsers/pretty printers??

Not that I know of. Annex A for sure is *not*. The introduction clearly
says

"This summary of C++ syntax is intended to be an aid to comprehension.
It is not an exact statement of the language."

Further, the complete annex A has the attribute "informative" and is
considered as a non-normative, purely informative addition to the
standard document. This is conform to ISO/IEC rules (see 5.1.3 of
"ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2" from

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3a4qh3

>  It is SUCH a pain to manually go
>  through almost 1000 lines of grammar and hand-edit it to comply with
>  parser tools. Anyone have any suggestions in this regard?

Unfortunately, I have not.

HTH&  Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler


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Repitition in grammer cv_curious <phdscholar80@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-16 19:46 -0700
  Re: Repitition in grammer Daniel Krügler<daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2011-09-20 10:10 -0700
    Re: Repitition in grammer cv_curious<phdscholar80@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-24 21:47 -0700
      Re: Repitition in grammer Daniel Krügler<daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2011-09-25 08:28 -0700
  Re: Repitition in grammer Joshua Maurice<joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-09-21 11:08 -0700

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