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Re: [Json] [OT] Re: Radically changing 4627bis

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 10 October 2013 07:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] [OT] Re: Radically changing 4627bis
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On Oct 10, 2013, at 07:42, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:

> On 2013/10/10 13:33, John Cowan wrote:
>> "Martin J. Dürst" scripsit:
>> 
>>> I assume that "car racing" refers to a style of specification close
>>> to pseudocode, with step-by-step descriptions.
>> 
>> Not at all.  See<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_diagram>.
>> There are usually called "railroad diagrams", at least by me.
> 
> Oh, I see. So it's not about specification style, just about notation.

Yes, sorry for being opaque.  (When they were popular in the 1970s, we sometimes derided them as "Rennbahndiagramme", "racetrack diagrams".)

I can put the ABNF into tools.  Harder to do that with those nice figures.
These have the higher tutorial value, though, and are more accessible to people without CS background.
(Instead of trying to be a complete notation, they rely on the text, e.g. "hexadecimal digits".)

More generally speaking, I read ECMA 404 as a nice JSON tutorial, which it does quite well.
If I can get someone to read only 6 pages about JSON, these are the ones I'd suggest.

As with most tutorials, it wins by not addressing some of the more difficult issues.

Grüße, Carsten

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