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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Offtopic: EBNF equivelant for describing bitstreams
On Thursday 12 December 2002 20:44, Jirka Kosek wrote: > EBNF is not tied to any particular representation of underlying language > (characters, bits, ...). If I remember it correctly from school years > you can describe any context free grammar with EBNF. So if structure of > your binary format can be described by context free grammar, you can use > EBNF. You have a point; a fairly good one. It might be valid to do something like the following in EBNF: MyTwoBitBitstreamBlock ::= SingleBit SingleBit SingleBit ::= true | false false ::= 0 true ::= 1 Thanks for your comment! It enhanced my understanding of EBNF limits. - Rowan van der Molen -- Humbly they tried Their faces fried Burned by sunshine Doing just fine
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