Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: glen herrmannsfeldt Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Formatting of Language LRMs Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 02:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-06-019@comp.compilers> References: <14-06-010@comp.compilers> <14-06-016@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1403367722 6343 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (21 Jun 2014 16:22:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: standards, comment Posted-Date: 21 Jun 2014 12:22:02 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1274 Ivan Godard wrote: (snip) > Two very important cases not following this practice: Algol68, which > used van Wijngaarten notation ("VWG"), and Ada where the standard is > defined by a test suite. There are Ada manuals, but if the manual > differs from the suite then the suite governs. Not so long ago, regarding a question that I think was from this group, but maybe a different one, I downloaded the Algol-68 description. I could see that the information was there, but it was too hard to figure out the answer to the question. I have an actual book on Algol-60. -- glen [I had the same problem, the Algol68 language is great, but the description is impenetrable. -John]