RE: [PHP-LANG] Approaching the First Draft [of a language spec]

What is our target audience for the language specification. I'm familiar with bison and I'm sure most of the other people who develop PHP and discuss the specific issues of PHP (in regards to the development of PHP) are as well. What about people who are just PHP developer's, how can they have access to that language specification? Perhaps we should consider making the language specification more of something that everyone can understand? The semantics portion looks pretty good (probably because its so detailed, it hardly leaves anything up to the imagination ;). -Sterling -----Original Message----- From: Sascha Schumann [mailto:sascha@schumann.cx] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:29 AM To: php-lang@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-LANG] Approaching the First Draft [of a language spec] Hi all, we need a clear roadmap on how to approach the goal of having a language specification. Here is the earlier proposal I sent to php-dev. Note that this does not say anything about the format of the final documentation. Your opinions and ideas are welcome. Task 1: Defining the syntax The syntax can be represented in the common pseudo-grammar style, which has been used by K&R and many ANSI/ISO language standards before. Everyone who is familiar with Yacc/Bison will immediately recognize it. The file `Language_Notation.txt' contains a definition and examples. Task 2: Defining the semantics This comes down to defining what meaning the various pieces of the syntax have and what actions they cause. The First Draft will be based upon the language implementation which is used by PHP 4. The draft may differ from that implementation, if the workgroup decides so. Thanks, - Sascha -- PHP Language Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-lang-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-lang-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net