Re: Railroad track syntax diagrams

2006-08-03 Thread bearophileHUGS
Paul McGuire: > generation of the railroad diagrams (in something > more legible/appealing than ASCII-art!). That ASCII-art looks easy enough to read. It may be bad when the graph becomes very big. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Railroad track syntax diagrams

2006-08-02 Thread Ralf Muschall
Paddy wrote: > I googlled and got these: > http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~thiemann/haskell/ebnf2ps/ > http://www.antlr.org/share/1107033888258/SDG2-1.5.zip There is another beast, also called ebnf2ps, but in elisp (runs inside the editor). It requires no additional software (i.e. no

Re: Railroad track syntax diagrams

2006-08-01 Thread Paddy
Paddy wrote: > Paul McGuire wrote: > > Back in the mid-90's, Kees Blom generated a set of railroad syntax diagrams > > for Python > > (http://python.project.cwi.nl/search/hypermail/python-1994q3/0286.html). > > This pre-dates any Python awareness on my part, but I'm sure this would have > > been v

Re: Railroad track syntax diagrams

2006-08-01 Thread Paddy
Paul McGuire wrote: > Back in the mid-90's, Kees Blom generated a set of railroad syntax diagrams > for Python > (http://python.project.cwi.nl/search/hypermail/python-1994q3/0286.html). > This pre-dates any Python awareness on my part, but I'm sure this would have > been version 1.3 or something.

Re: Railroad track syntax diagrams

2006-08-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-08-01, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For those who are not familiar with railroad syntax diagrams, they >> show a grammar's syntax using arrows and blocks, instead of BNF > > I've always liked railroad diagrams. Me too. The Pascal text w

Re: Railroad track syntax diagrams

2006-08-01 Thread Roy Smith
Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those who are not familiar with railroad syntax diagrams, they > show a grammar's syntax using arrows and blocks, instead of BNF I've always liked railroad diagrams. Oracle used to use them (maybe they still do?) in their SQL reference manuals. I fin

Railroad track syntax diagrams

2006-08-01 Thread Paul McGuire
Back in the mid-90's, Kees Blom generated a set of railroad syntax diagrams for Python (http://python.project.cwi.nl/search/hypermail/python-1994q3/0286.html). This pre-dates any Python awareness on my part, but I'm sure this would have been version 1.3 or something. For those who are not familiar