Timeline for Are Backus–Naur Form (BNF) and Extended Backus–Naur Form metalanguages or metasyntax?
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| Jul 24, 2014 at 21:48 | answer | added | reece | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 14:19 | history | edited | hippietrail |
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| Jul 14, 2014 at 8:07 | comment | added | a p | @Tim, formal languages (CLs, at least) have semantics as well, so specifying the syntax is not sufficient to define a language. | |
| Jul 13, 2014 at 1:45 | comment | added | Tim | But a formal language may not have a formal grammar that can generate it. Still syntax should exist, so what is its formal definition?@jlawler | |
| Jul 13, 2014 at 1:36 | comment | added | jlawler | @Tim: Yes. People who talk about formal languages as if they really existed always use the word syntax to mean 'grammar'. | |
| Jul 12, 2014 at 23:04 | comment | added | Tim | For a formal language, are its formal grammar and its syntax the same thing? | |
| Jul 12, 2014 at 22:59 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | Notations. Metasyntaxes possibly, I don't know what that term is used for. | |
| Jul 12, 2014 at 22:58 | comment | added | Tim | what are BNF and EBNF then? | |
| Jul 12, 2014 at 22:56 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | It's not a language, you can't make propositions in it. | |
| Jul 12, 2014 at 22:54 | history | asked | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |