Syntax diagrams (or railroad diagrams) are a way to represent a context-free grammar. They represent a graphical alternative to Backus–Naur form, EBNF...
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Extended Backus–Naur form (section Syntax diagram)
Wirth, incorporating some of the concepts (with a different syntax and notation) from Wirth syntax notation. Today, many variants of EBNF are in use. The International...
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A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques. Diagrams have been used since prehistoric times on walls of caves...
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defined by the syntax, so computer languages in general have become more restrictive in how a quoted-literal is defined. Syntax diagram: Wirth, Niklaus...
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diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s. The diagrams are...
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ISBN 978-1-933633-10-7. Mazziotta, N. (2016). "Drawing syntax before syntactic trees: Stephen Watkins Clark's sentence diagrams (1847)". Historiographia Linguistica, 43(3)...
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prose-val in the RFC spec. They are named here for clarity in the main syntax diagram. The (U.S.) postal address example given in the augmented Backus–Naur...
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(EBNF) Meta-II – an early compiler writing tool and notation Syntax diagram – railroad diagram Translational Backus–Naur form (TBNF) Van Wijngaarden grammar...
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often used for scoping functions and operators and for arrays. In syntax diagrams they are used for grouping, such as in extended Backus–Naur form. In...
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Uniform Resource Name (section Syntax)
ALPHA / DIGIT ; obsolete, usage is deprecated or, in the form of a syntax diagram, as: The leading scheme (urn:) is case-insensitive. <NID> is the namespace...
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Parse tree (redirect from Concrete syntax)
making them distinct from the abstract syntax trees used in computer programming. Unlike Reed-Kellogg sentence diagrams used for teaching grammar, parse trees...
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Uniform Resource Identifier (section Syntax)
authority = [userinfo "@"] host [":" port] This is represented in a syntax diagram as: The URI comprises: A non-empty scheme component followed by a colon...
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In theoretical physics, a Feynman diagram is a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions describing the behavior and interaction of subatomic...
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Statement (computer science) (section Syntax)
of BNF. Cobol used a two-dimensional metalanguage. Pascal used both syntax diagrams and equivalent BNF. BNF uses recursion to express repetition, so various...
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Space syntax is a set of theories and techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations. It was conceived by Bill Hillier, Julienne Hanson, and colleagues...
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Object Process Methodology (redirect from Object Process Diagram)
modeling in OPM. Object process diagram (OPD) OPD is the one and only kind of diagram of OPM. This uniqueness of diagram kind is a major contributor to...
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Compilers Appendix A - the ASCII character set Appendix B - Pascal syntax diagrams Wirth, Niklaus (1976). Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. Prentice-Hall...
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Syntax diagram of the Color Naming System...
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traverse the elements of the Aggregate1 object. Some languages standardize syntax. C++ and Python are notable examples. C++ implements iterators with the...
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logic, syntax is anything having to do with formal languages or formal systems without regard to any interpretation or meaning given to them. Syntax is concerned...
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IDEs also have a class browser, an object browser, and a class hierarchy diagram for use in object-oriented software development. Integrated development...
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (known in linguistic circles simply as Aspects) is a book on linguistics written by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first...
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Backus–Naur form (BNF) describes the syntax of "sentences" of a language. It was developed by John Backus and used for the syntax of Algol 60. The ideas derive...
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Aeschylus-related materials at the Perseus Digital Library Complete syntax diagrams at Alpheios Online English Translations of Aeschylus Photo of a fragment...
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Tree structure (section Classical node-link diagrams)
both the terms "tree structure" and "tree-diagram" from 1965 in Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. In a tree structure there is one and only...
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precedence or binding, consider the diagram above for the expression 3+2*y[i]++. The compiler's job is to resolve the diagram into an expression, one in which...
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Mermaid (software) (category Diagramming software)
create various types of diagrams using a Markdown-like syntax, including: Flowcharts Sequence diagrams Class diagrams State diagrams Gantt charts Entity–relationship...
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version control integration. The syntax of comments varies by programming language yet there are repeating patterns in the syntax among languages as well as...
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via any variation of a physical quantity. The protocol defines the rules, syntax, semantics, and synchronization of communication and possible error recovery...
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