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

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Derick Rethans wrote:

>
> 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.

    As I already said in private email that it is incorrect. A
    grammar (Task 1 of the proposal) is the sum of the parser
    and the lexer.

> 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)?

    Please refer to Task 2.

    - Sascha