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Subject: [relax-ng-comment] Re: Attribute grammars
James Clark wrote (on the relax-ng
list):
> My overall feeling is that this new notation
is more rigorous and less
> ad-hoc than my original notation. However, I think the main audience for > this Annex is implementors, who are primarily programmers not computer > scientists. We need to make sure the notation makes sense to a programmer > who I would guess would be more likely to be familiar with parser generators > (JavaCC, yacc etc) than with attribute grammars. If we can find a good way > to fix my comment 6, then I think we can have a notation that both makes > sense to our main audience and has a solid formal basis. Another worry I > have is that it is going to take significant effort to fix all the problems > in this new notation and make sure all the bugs have been squashed. A word from an implementor: Please stay with the current notation. It is compact and comprehensible. I've looked at
the suggested attribute
grammar notation, but it's no improvement from my
perspective.
Cheers,
David
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