Re: [whatwg/url] Provide a succinct grammar for valid URL strings (#479)

> this is unrelated to what URLs are accepted by software, because software needs to parse URLs, not just perform the string -> boolean validation algorithm which grammars enable. 

Just to be sure. Grammars do enable parsing. There’s an introduction to that in the section on Derivations and syntax trees on [Wikipedia][1]. I have always assumed that everybody here knows this.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar



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