On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Zach Welch wrote:
>
> > > The use of angle brackets intends to distinguish parameter names from
> > > literal arguments. Thus [<foo>] means an optional thing which
> > > semantically will be used as a "foo", whereas [foo|bar] means you can
> > > optionally provide the 'foo' or 'bar' options (literally). If the
> > > parameter is required, I used (foo|bar) or <foo|bar> depending on
> > > whether the parameter should be literal or figurative, respectively.
> >
> > I've seen it used in places where it's optional ... e.g. the typical
> > "if no parameter, just dump current state" stuff.
>
> Okay, but how could you then distinguish constant and variable tokens?
BNF uses quotes:
'literal' variable
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