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

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 10 October 2013 04:33 UTC

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"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.

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