Re: How to write the BNF

[Hans Aberg]

On 11 Mar 2008, at 14:28, Sharan Basappa wrote:

> Thanks. On the last part, I believe the keywords would also be
> generally categorized as tokens/terminals.
> Suppose I have come up with a new language and want to give a formal
> explanation to it.
> For items like if, else, main I categorize them as keywords and then I
> categorize
> if, else, main, {, } as terminal tokens. Do you think this is a good
> way of explaining the
> language

You may try places like the Usenet newsgroup comp.compilers (and some  
others) for question like this.

I think that "keywords" refer to tokens hardwired into the language,  
and often they do not change meaning by context.

  Hans Aberg