Looking for Lisp Grammar

[Erik Naggum]

[Persky Yakov]

| I'm looking for Lisp grammar. It may be in one of 2 following forms:
| 1. As a YACC file (preferrable)
| 2. In the BNF (Backus Naur Form)
| Thanks in advance for any help.

why do you need this? maybe YACC/BNF is not the best solution to your
problem. btw, I haven't seen any such grammars.

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[Persky Yakov]

I'm looking for Lisp grammar. It may be in one of 2 following forms:
1. As a YACC file (preferrable)
2. In the BNF (Backus Naur Form)
Thanks in advance for any help.

Yakov.

[Thomas A. Russ]

In article <...> pers...@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Persky Yakov) writes:
> I'm looking for Lisp grammar. It may be in one of 2 following forms:
> 1. As a YACC file (preferrable)
> 2. In the BNF (Backus Naur Form)

At its most basic :)

SYMBOL ::= ...

NUMBER ::= ...

STRING ::= ...

CONS ::= (EXPRESSION . EXPRESSION)

EXPRESSION ::= SYMBOL | NUMBER | STRING | CONS | ()

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Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute t...@isi.edu

[Richard M. Alderson III]

In article <40cuau$k...@post.tau.ac.il> pers...@lune.math.tau.ac.il
(Persky Yakov) writes:

>I'm looking for Lisp grammar. It may be in one of 2 following forms:
> 1. As a YACC file (preferrable)
> 2. In the BNF (Backus Naur Form)

Look for John Allen's _Anatomy of LISP_ (1978, McGraw-Hill; ISBN 0-07-001115-X)
which has a BNF grammar (roughly 8 lines) and discusses the semantics thereof
for roughly 400 pages.

You can also see pp. 8-9 of _LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual_ (2nd ed. 1965, MIT
Press, ISBN 0 262 13011 4).
--
Rich Alderson You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
what not.
--J. R. R. Tolkien,
alde...@netcom.com _The Notion Club Papers_