RE: [PHP-LANG] Approaching the First Draft [of a language spec]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Sterling Hughes wrote:

> >    I'm not sure how the end-user will be able to benefit from a
> >    list of syntactical rules. Can you elaborate what you have in
> >    mind?
> 
> I find myself most often reading the source of PHP when I want an answer to
> a question regarding syntax rather than going to the documentation.  I think
> it would be great for the end user to have a syntax sheet showing them what
> is legal PHP and what isn't legally PHP as both a reference and as learning
> tool.  It also is a way of guaranteeing the users "this will work", this is
> valid PHP syntax and this won't work, this is not valid syntax.

So if I can see, the result of this project will be the
zend_language_parser.y, stripped from all actions and constructs to make
yacc happy. I think this is pretty useless if there is not given a
semantical meaning for these rules. What do you have in mind about this
Sascha (or give a small example of what you mean)?


Derick