[Python-Dev] String literal concatenation & docstrings
Guido van Rossum
gvanrossum at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 05:32:29 CET 2004
> But if you look at Grammar/Grammar you will notice that atom goes to STRING+
> which should cover this.
Of course, otherwise it wouldn't work! :-)
> Is that grammar.txt file generated from
> Grammar/Grammar or is it done by hand?
By hand. The reference manual has more detail (Grammar/Grammar doesn't
say anything about what a STRING is, or other literals) and presents
some rules in a more readable form which wouldn't work for
Grammar/Grammar given the LL1 constraints of pgen. It also chooses
more readable names. But the translation process is fallible.
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