Re: [odata] Extension of APG for case sensitive strings

[Stefan Drees <stefan@drees.name>]

Hi Ken,

Am 09.11.12 14:03, schrieb kenb:
> The program removes unnessary parenthetical grouping (because of the
> precedence rules of ABNF) when it is absolutely clear that they are not
> needed.  Removing all of the unnecessary parentheses is much harder and
> risks producing an expression that has a different meaning in some cases.
> Since the generated grammar is not intended to be especially readable,
> it will have some unnecessary parentheses ....

thanks for responding so fast. I also understand the focus on machine 
readability in the output, ... but my point was, the **insertion** of 
parentheses **where none existed in the input** (not any possibly 
removable parentheses from the input).

Something like (snippet from the previous mail):

> > ; odata-abnf-construction-rules-v1.0-wd01.txt input
> > singleNavigation = [ "/" qualifiedEntityTypeName ]
> >                   ( links "/" navigationProperty
> >                   /  "/" ( entityColNavigationProperty [
> > ...

> > ; portion in out_abnf.txt i.e. eapg.jar output (reformatted for
> > comparability
> > singleNavigation = [ "/" qualifiedEntityTypeName ]
> >                   ((links "/" navigationProperty)
> >                   / ("/" ((entityColNavigationProperty [
> > ...

All the best,
Stefan.

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