Re: Railroad diagrams of Python grammar

Michael Kuperstein - EECS (mkuperst@quibble.eecs.wsu.edu)
Wed, 17 Aug 1994 18:36:04 GMT

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In article <9408171215.AA12936=guido@voorn.cwi.nl>,
<Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl> wrote:
>A colleague is working on a program to generate railroad grammar
>diagrams from grammar descriptions, and chose Python as an example.
>The output (a PostScript file) is available on the world-wide web as
>
> http://www.cwi.nl/~guido/railroad.ps
>
>This is pretty neat -- much more graspable than the average textual
>grammar summary!
>
>I'm considering to put this in an appendix to the Python Reference
>Manual. Anyone got ideas for improvements?
>
>For more info, email to Kees.Blom@cwi.nl.
>
>--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
><URL:http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Guido.van.Rossum.html>
>

Looks really good, and would be a great help to quite a few people.
I also think the diagrams should be in the Python Reference Manual.

As for suggestions? I dunno. Looks fine to me.

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