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Re: Semantics, opt in Semantics

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On 2015/01/15 13:12, Seima Rao wrote:
>      Is there something similar for semantics i.e. is there something optional
>      in semantics.
...
> [Man, there's a can of worms. There's no semantic formalism that matches real
> semantics as well as BNF matches real syntax. -John]

There is denotational semantics, though. Dave Schmidt's 1986 book is now
available for free:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotational_semantics
http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/text/densem.html

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Semantics, opt in Semantics Seima Rao <seimarao@gmail.com> - 2015-01-15 17:42 +0530
  Re: Semantics, opt in Semantics rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-01-16 16:11 +0000
  Re: Semantics, opt in Semantics Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-01-16 16:28 +0000
    Re: Semantics, opt in Semantics glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-01-17 18:42 +0000
  Re: Semantics, opt in Semantics Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2015-01-16 18:20 +0100
  Re: Semantics, opt in Semantics wclodius@earthlink.net (William Clodius) - 2015-01-16 12:22 -0700
    Re: Semantics, opt in Semantics Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2015-01-18 10:03 -0500

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