Re: Interpretation of EBNF

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Interpretation of EBNF
Date	2019-02-24 12:34 -0800
Organization	None to speak of
Message-ID	<lnwolporh8.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink)
References	<EBNF-20190224151913@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>   The EBNF of C reads (excerpt):
>
> unary-expression:
> postfix-expression
> unary-operator unary-expression
>
>   . The following question surely serves no practical demand,
>   but just for the sake of correctly interpreting EBNF:
>
>   The above surely allows a unary expression to be preceded
>   by a finite number of minus signs (unary operators).
>
>   When there is an infinite number (say Aleph_0) of minus signs
>   and then a unary-expression, is this also a unary expression?

I'll let you know as soon as I finish parsing this infinite input.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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Re: Interpretation of EBNF Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-02-24 12:34 -0800
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