[Versa] Updated ebnf with no conflicts

Uche Ogbuji uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com
Fri Sep 23 16:41:44 MDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 01:40 -0600, Michael Olson wrote:
> Not even reduce reduce...
> 
> It took a combination of what I was talking about in my last message to 
> resolve all of the conflicts
> 
> Changes:
> 
> traversals/filters now use "--"

As with Chime, I prefer not to make this change.  As you mentioned,
precedence should be sufficient for this s/r conflict.

> comparison is with ==

I'd prefer to leave it as "=".  Precedence would do the trick, or I'd
also be OK using ":=" for the other main use of =.

> added function reference as &function_name

I really dislike this change.  I think it makes a lot more sense to add
syntax to qname predicates as functions.


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