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Re: [abnf-discuss] Target audience for ABNF

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com> Mon, 20 November 2017 01:20 UTC

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From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com>
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On 11/19/2017 5:13 PM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> I'm simply talking about verifying that the ABNF is entirely well 
> formed, that all rulenames have definitions, and that there are no 
> multiple definitions. (Multiple instances of the same rulename on the 
> left of  an "=".)

ahh. syntactic validation.  Hmmm... I'd had the impression that that was 
pretty common these days.

d/

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