On Tue, 24 May 2011, Francis Galiegue wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 18:45, SF Markus Elfring
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> But as I mentioned in another mail, EBNF is just NOT the way to go in
> >> order to get people to begin to use Coccinelle on a larger scale --
> >> people who read and _write_ C are orders of magnitude more numerous
> >> than people who can read EBNF - let alone write it.
> >
> > Would you like to include any syntax diagrams in your documentation
> > approach?
> >
> > http://www-cgi.uni-regensburg.de/~brf09510/syntax.html
> > http://karmin.ch/ebnf/index
> > http://dotnet.jku.at/applications/Visualizer/
> > http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~thiemann/haskell/ebnf2ps/
> >
> > Regards,
> > Markus
> >
> 
> Very useful indeed. I'll try and make one of these tools work on the
> existing grammar specification...

OK, if you like.  I find it hard to see what is the improvement though.  
The result is still going to be enormous.  Also I believe that our grammar 
is parameterized (at least the implementation is), which I'm not sure that 
these approaches support.

julia
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