[Sdl-developers] ABNF Grammar

[J. David Beutel]

Java defines two separate grammars: lexical and syntactic.  The comments 
are in the lexical grammar, along with Unicode escapes and whitespace.  
It's applied separately, before the syntactic grammar.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/grammars.html#151185

I guess this follows the tradition of Lex and Yacc, and many languages 
do it the same way.  I would have assumed that the distinction was for 
performance reasons, but since performance is so much better nowadays, I 
guess it also makes it easier to understand.

So I wouldn't worry about unifying it for SDL.

Cheers,
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"Jesse Weaver" <pianohacker at gmail.com> wrote on Monday, January 08, 2007 
08:06:27:
> I guess it'll have to be. Thanks for the advice, all.
>
> On 1/8/07, *Daniel Leuck* <dan at ikayzo.com <mailto:dan at ikayzo.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi Eric,
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>     Thank you for the feedback.  Jesse - perhaps your comment above
>     the definition noting that multi-line comments are not covered is
>     sufficient.
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