[Oberon] Preprocessing

[Gérard Meunier]

Hello Thomas,

Sorry, but this syntax is far from exact. I can give many examples. I just
give one now:

If you read the syntax of OBJECT type, you see that its fields must be given
by VAR declarations, each one being followed by a semicolon, right? But omit
the last semicolon, before an END, and the compiler accepts your omission.
In fact, the right syntax would be a mix of DeclSeq and FieldList; not so
easy to write.

As long as you use only a standard compiler, no real problem. But if you
want to make your own syntactical tools, it's a little tricky.

Regards.

Gérard

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Frey <frey at inf.ethz.ch>
To: <oberon at inf.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Oberon] Preprocessing


> > Unfortunately, I see that the grammatical structure of a mod file
becomes
> > more and more complex. The grammar of AOS, for example, has no exact
EBNF
> > description yet.
> Try http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/languagereport/node7.html for the EBNF.
>
> --Thomas
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