Re: Optional rule in grammar (Web IDL W3C W.D. 7 Feb 2012) from Cameron McCormack on 2012-03-01 (public-script-coord@w3.org from January to March 2012)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:00:37 +1100
To: Anton Tayanovskyy <anton.tayanovskyy@gmail.com>
CC: public-script-coord@w3.org
Message-ID: <4F4F0275.9030601@mcc.id.au>

Hi Anton,

Anton Tayanovskyy:
> I am converting the IDL grammar to YACC (ocamlyacc). I get a warning
> that the following rules are never reduced:
>
> [41] Optional → "optional"
>   | ε
>
> As far as I can tell, it appears the rule is indeed extraneous.  Is it indeed?

You are right.  I've removed it now.

Thanks,

Cameron

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