Going back to RFC 2205,
These rules are specified using Backus-Naur Form (BNF) augmented
with square brackets surrounding optional sub-sequences.
What do you think of BNFO, for "Backus-Naur Form with Options"?
or BNFB, for "Backus-Naur Form with Brackets"?
Tony Hansen
tony(_at_)att(_dot_)com
John C Klensin wrote:
--On Friday, February 06, 2009 13:55 +0100 "Tom.Petch"
<sisyphus(_at_)dial(_dot_)pipex(_dot_)com> wrote:
...
I think too that there is a third issue, of a better name than
RBNF. John clearly showed that this I-D is not reduced.
Historic? Deprecated? Limited_applicability? Variant?
Simplified?
"simplified" has the same problem as "reduced", unless one
argues that one simplifies a metalanguage by adding more
operators. "Variant" would work for me, and this actually is
much more of a variation on classic BNF (or ISO Extended BNF)
than ABNF is.
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