[fpc-pascal] BNF grammar for fpc

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Oct 16 11:24:12 CEST 2009


In our previous episode, Jürgen Hestermann said:
> > There is not even a proper open one for Delphi. At least there wasn't till a
> > while back.
> 
> That may be because it is no longer possible to write a BNF grammar for 
> these compilers due to the c-style extensions.

Odd that there are grammers for C and C++ then, and they have no problem :-)
Please don't grab any random other thread to make your point.

The reason is probably more because Wirthian languages traditionally use
recursive descent parsers.



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