In computer science, Backus–Naur form (BNF; /ˌbækəs ˈnaʊər/; Backus normal form) is a notation used to describe the syntax of programming languages or...
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In computer science, extended Backus–Naur form (EBNF) is a family of metasyntax notations, any of which can be used to express a context-free grammar....
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In computer science, augmented Backus–Naur form (ABNF) is a metalanguage based on Backus–Naur form (BNF), but consisting of its own syntax and derivation...
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winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming...
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used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages...
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Translational Backus–Naur Form (TBNF or Translational BNF) refers to Backus–Naur form, which is a formal grammar notation used to define the syntax of...
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Vertical bar (section Backus–Naur form)
bar unusable as the regular expression "alternative" operator. In Backus–Naur form, an expression consists of sequences of symbols and/or sequences separated...
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2021-03-05. Here: p.354 Knuth, Donald E. (December 1964). "Backus Normal Form vs. Backus Naur Form". Communications of the ACM. 7 (12): 735–736. doi:10.1145/355588...
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computer languages are Backus–Naur form (BNF), extended Backus–Naur form (EBNF), Wirth syntax notation (WSN), and augmented Backus–Naur form (ABNF). Metalanguages...
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Atari BASIC (section Backus-Naur form)
in addresses 21210 and 21310 (D416 and D516). Atari BASIC supported Backus–Naur form. It has been in a part documented by Carol Shaw. Shaw, together with...
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formal language definition and through the Algol 60 Report introduced Backus–Naur form, a principal formal grammar notation for language design. There were...
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grammar. They represent a graphical alternative to Backus–Naur form, EBNF, Augmented Backus–Naur form, and other text-based grammars as metalanguages. Early...
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Context-free grammar (section Well-formed parentheses)
computer science, a popular notation for context-free grammars is Backus–Naur form, or BNF. Since at least the time of the ancient Indian scholar Pāṇini...
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an input to a parser generator. It often resembles Backus–Naur form (BNF), extended Backus–Naur form (EBNF), or has its own syntax. Grammar files describe...
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Formal grammar (redirect from Sentential form)
Adaptive grammar Ambiguous grammar Backus–Naur form (BNF) Categorial grammar Concrete syntax tree Extended Backus–Naur form (EBNF) Grammar Grammar framework...
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which is a Type-2 grammar, generally given as production rules in Backus–Naur form (BNF). Phrase grammars are often specified in much more constrained...
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Originally proposed by Niklaus Wirth in 1977 as an alternative to Backus–Naur form (BNF). It has several advantages over BNF in that it contains an explicit...
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declared before use which is impossible to describe in the extended Backus–Naur form and thus not easily detected during parsing. Attribute grammar Context-sensitive...
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(DFA)-based lexers with full Unicode support and lexical states. Extended Backus–Naur form grammar syntax. (Supports the *, ? and + operators). LALR(1) based...
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code) based on a formal grammar, written in a notation similar to Backus–Naur form (BNF). Yacc is supplied as a standard utility on BSD and AT&T Unix...
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acyclic graph (DAG) Document Object Model (DOM) Expression tree Extended Backus–Naur form Lisp, a family of languages written in trees, with macros to manipulate...
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to Iota that supports input and output. Note that this article uses Backus-Naur form to describe syntax. Chris Barker's universal iota combinator ι has...
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Expression templates allow users to approximate the syntax of extended Backus–Naur form (EBNF) completely in C++. Parser objects are composed through operator...
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or ↔. This definition can also be written as a formal grammar in Backus–Naur form, provided the set of variables is finite: <alpha set> ::= p | q | r...
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In syntax diagrams they are used for grouping, such as in extended Backus–Naur form. In Mathematica and the Wolfram language, parentheses are used to indicate...
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programmers to form constants, variable names, structure names, and function names. Syntax Rules are defined in the Backus–Naur form. Programming languages...
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structured design. Algol was first to define its syntax using the Backus–Naur form. This led to syntax-directed compilers. It added features like: block...
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contents. A syslog message is formatted (RFC 5424 gives the Augmented Backus–Naur form (ABNF) definition), but its MSG field is not. The network protocol...
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will halt at depth n. Backus–Naur form Chomsky normal form Kuroda normal form Greibach, Sheila (January 1965). "A New Normal-Form Theorem for Context-Free...
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and its syntax was the first to be described in formal notation – Backus–Naur form (BNF). During roughly the same period, COBOL introduced records (also...
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