> Having an EBNF would be useful in cases where we want to write > something like Ruby's CoffeeScript. After looking at PHP's grammar > file, it's about 1,000 lines long. Since this is used to generate the > parser, isn't it possible to strip out the C macros to create an EBNF > that catches all edge cases?
Not being sure at all, but I reckon a lot of those edge cases are handled in the c macros and not in the plain "yacc"-style grammar definition. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
