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On 2014-06-20, Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> wrote:
> VWG is vastly superior to BNF because it provides a formal specification
> of semantics, in particular the type system, which cannot be expressed
> in BNF.

How do you put this into VWG, semantics and all:

  (lisp-macro with (mystery arguments))

:)