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Ancient Roots of BNF

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2 points by willwinger 6 years ago · 1 comment

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watergatorman 6 years ago

Interesting article.

There is both left and right recursion in the definition of <number>, but this EBNF (Wirth notation) uses iteration only:

number = digit { digit } [ "." digit { digit } ] .

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