cvs: php-lang / Language_Notation.txt

sas		Fri Nov 17 14:59:17 2000 EDT

  Modified files:
    /php-lang	Language_Notation.txt 
  Log:
  I don't like to type too much
  
  
Index: php-lang/Language_Notation.txt
diff -u php-lang/Language_Notation.txt:1.3 php-lang/Language_Notation.txt:1.4
--- php-lang/Language_Notation.txt:1.3	Fri Nov 17 12:24:53 2000
+++ php-lang/Language_Notation.txt	Fri Nov 17 14:59:17 2000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Language Notation ($Date: 2000/11/17 20:24:53 $)
+Language Notation ($Date: 2000/11/17 22:59:17 $)
 
     Non-terminals: Syntactic categories
     Terminals:     Literal words and character set members,
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
 
     A colon (:) following a nonterminal introduces its
     definition.  Alternative definitions are listed on separate
-    lines, except when prefaced by the words "one of". An
-    optional symbol is indicated by enclosing the symbol in
-    brackets ([]).
+    lines, except when prefaced by the words "one of" or the word
+    "matching". An optional symbol is indicated by enclosing the 
+    symbol in brackets ([]). A definition which is prefaced by 
+    the word "matching" is to be expanded as if the definition 
+    would be a character class of a regular expression.
 
     Examples:
 
@@ -23,6 +25,11 @@
 
         octal-digit: one of
             '0' '1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7'
+    
+    The next example is equivalent to the prior one.
+
+        octal-digit: matching
+            0-7
 
     Rationale: The above description and examples were derived
                from ISO C99. The excerpts have been modified to