Python Front-end to GCC
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Oct 22 14:16:04 EDT 2013
On 22/10/2013 18:50, Mark Janssen wrote:
>>> So which of you is confused? I ask that in the inclusive (not
>>> exclusive OR) sense.... ;^) <-- face says "both".
>>
>> Could you please be less snarky? We're trying to communicate here, and it
>> is not at all clear yet who is confused and who is not. If you are
>> interested in discussing technical topics, then discuss them.
>
> Okay. The purpose of BNF (at least as I envision it) is to
> produce/specify a *context-free* "grammar". A lexer parses the tokens
> specified in the BNF into an Abstract Syntax Tree. If one can produce
> such a tree for any given source, the language, in theory, can be
> compiled by GCC into an executable.
>
> Boom.
>
But you still need to specify the semantics.
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