rcd@opus.UUCP (05/24/84)
<> > Anyone who is a serious student of programming linguistics, > should realize that a delimiter is neccessary to separate the > expression from the statement in all conditional language-constucts > -- if you want to keep your grammer LALR(1) (almost a given). Not at all true. It depends on the statement and expression structure of the language. You can take the 'then' out of the Pascal 'if' without introducing any ambiguity. Really--ask your parser-generator (I did!) -- ...Stop to smell the flowers. Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303) 444-5710 x3086