From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: bnf-mode Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 12:07:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <23ebbedf-5474-bbbd-47d2-3404f47f7a23@gmail.com> <877eb53q76.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="212264"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 05 18:14:08 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJmC-000t8V-C9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 18:14:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJmB-0008Fq-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 12:14:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJfx-0003js-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 12:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJfw-0006lD-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 12:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58406 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJfw-0006jq-Gy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 12:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hNJfs-000muK-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2019 18:07:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:rjmzdLshbkcjIFdFDnI2kyp8VuM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236178 Archived-At: > And I have to say than Bison is not BNF. I understand that, but BNF is a general term referring to an *abstract* (meta)syntax and every textbook presents it with slightly different syntactic conventions. I use BNF regularly, but never using the specific syntax your mode supports. Hence my question: >> In what kind of circumstances would this be used? E.g. what have you used it for? Stefan