Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> writes:

> I agree with you. It's been pretty clear since BNF was first used
> (strictly speaking, it was just BF for Algol 58, but that was well
> before my time) that some terminations in BNF *require* explanation in
> human language. That doesn't make the formalism useless.

Or to put it another way: almost no one likes reading code without
comments.  Especially those less well versed in the technical
specification language, and I'd suggest we would generally like to
enable understanding in the readers even when the ABNF may be
technically correct and complete.

-- 
Wes Hardaker
USC/ISI

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