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Re: Add Files Syntax Problems
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: Add Files Syntax Problems |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:13:44 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:38:02AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> {} indicates a choice. You use one or the other of the choices
> inside the braces.
>
> Perhaps we ought to update the manual to make that clear. The section
> entitled BNF fails to mention it.
That's a good idea, I didn't realize that we'd missed that.
It would be even better to use different typefaces for literal
text, metasyntactic variables, and operators, but that's a bigger
change and wouldn't show up in Info pages.
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Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org