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

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how the end-user will be able to benefit from a > > > list of syntactical rules. Can you elaborate what you have in > > > mind? > > > > I find myself most often reading the source of PHP when I want an answer to > > a question regarding syntax rather than going to the documentation. I think > > it would be great for the end user to have a syntax sheet showing them what > > is legal PHP and what isn't legally PHP as both a reference and as learning > > tool. It also is a way of guaranteeing the users "this will work", this is > > valid PHP syntax and this won't work, this is not valid syntax. > > So if I can see, the result of this project will be the > zend_language_parser.y, stripped from all actions and constructs to make > yacc happy. As I already said in private email that it is incorrect. A grammar (Task 1 of the proposal) is the sum of the parser and the lexer. > I think this is pretty useless if there is not given a > semantical meaning for these rules. What do you have in mind about this > Sascha (or give a small example of what you mean)? Please refer to Task 2. - Sascha