Re: EBNF was Re: [markdown-testsuite] Add End Of Line (EOL) definition/tests. (#1)

EBNF is a *standard* way of declaring grammar in an unambiguous fashion.
 English is notoriously ambiguous.  You can write a parser straight from
EBNF.  There is a reason that the productions in XML (for example) are all
done in EBNF.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:

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> Le 29 nov. 2012 à 01:28, Dave Pawson a écrit :
> > So who is going to have a go at a para in EBNF?
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> What do we solve by having EBNF?
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> * for (human) authors
> * for parsers
> * for converters
>
> Not clear to me.
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> Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
> Developer Relations, Opera Software
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