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Formal UCL grammar definition #231

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ngortheone opened this issue Jul 1, 2020 · 5 comments
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Formal UCL grammar definition #231

ngortheone opened this issue Jul 1, 2020 · 5 comments

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@ngortheone
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Is there a formal grammar definition for UCL? (e.g. *BNF)
@vstakhov
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vstakhov commented Jul 1, 2020

No, there isn't.

@ngortheone
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how would one write an alternative parser implementation? How doe you know that the syntax is correct if there is no spec?

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vstakhov commented Jul 1, 2020

(Shrugs) By reading the docs apparently.

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UCL is very close in spirit to HOCON

Someone had attempted to write grammar for hocon
https://gist.github.com/01010101lzy/13fb644218f6c44b6492703a32343abb

Maybe it can be used as a starting point?

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vstakhov commented Jul 1, 2020

Yes, that might probably be used. Who volounteers to adopt it?

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