Re: EBNF grammar of presentation syntax

> > Profile names: We have profile names?  I don't remember them.  Where  
> > are
> > they in the syntax?
> >
> 
> You are right, profiles are ANGLEBRACKIRIs, confused that with Dialect  
> names, cf.
> 
>   Dialect        ::= 'Dialect' '(' Name ')'

Ah, I missed that.  As I've argued many times, included a dialect name
in the syntax is big mistake.  I thought people understood that by now,
but I guess not.  I think it's a mistake for FLD to support dialect
designers macking this mistake, but I guess it's my fault for not
noticing this before Last Call.   Oh well.

As for the rest of this thread...  I don't care about "the" PS.  It's
just there as a shorthand for specifying the semantics.  I'll consider
it a huge failure of the community if people ever actually use it
(instead of better PS's that come along).

    -- Sandro

Received on Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:44:14 UTC