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From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: My answer about Ada and FreePascal and C++
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 16:08:14 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-01-01, JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 01:07:16 +0000 (UTC), Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> 
>> See this Pascal BNF grammar, for instance, which looks like
>> some traditiona, old Pascal:
>> 
>> http://www2.informatik.uni-halle.de/lehre/pascal/sprache/pas_bnf.html
>> 
>> In every production where a semicolon terminal symbol appears, it is
>> preceded and followed by something (a something which doesn't derive
>> an empty string). Hence it is a separator.
>
> As far as I can see, it's a flaw in the Backus–Naur Form itself. Backus–Naur
> Form doesn't require a terminator character at the end of each rule.

What??? You should listen to more Zeppelin because you need schoolin',
baby, I'm not foolin'.