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Re: Proposal for BNF/EBNF markup
At 10:25 AM -0500 3/22/00, Eve L. Maler wrote:
>>lhs --> prodleftside
>>rhs --> prodtranslation
>> (or maybe translation, translations, or translationlist)
>
>These are traditionally called lhs and rhs in all kinds of computer
>science contexts, so I'm reluctant to expand them. If we do, it
>should be lefthandside and righthandside.
Are <leftside> and <rightside> acceptable alternatives?
At 10:25 AM -0500 3/22/00, Eve L. Maler wrote:
>Yikes... I fear that this will tip the design over to doing actual
>modeling, which I've tried to do in the past and which rarely
>satisfies everybody.
At 10:25 AM -0500 3/22/00, Norman Walsh wrote:
>Hmmm. Fairly high markup/text ratio.
Point taken. I agree.
>Are there requirements here for being able to switch representations
>of the same BNF?
Not really. I was just trying to stay out of the formatting business
when thinking in content mode. Perhaps I was getting overzealous;
I'm a little new to this structured documentation thing, and trying
to follow principles.
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