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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Complexity of syntax
Message-ID: <13857:Jan506:12:5891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 06:12:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.152846.15917@maths.nott.ac.uk> <11883:Jan502:21:0191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Jan5.044445.15116@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991Jan5.044445.15116@agate.berkeley.edu> jwl@garnet.berkeley.edu (James Wilbur Lewis) writes:
> In article <11883:Jan502:21:0191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> -  [ syntax versus semantics ]
> -> For
> -> example, is the restriction that you can't declare the same identifier
> -> twice in the same declaration syntactic or semantic?
> -Syntax. It has no effect on semantics.
> Gee, all the C grammars I've seen allow the same identifier to be declared
> any number of times.

Who said he was referring specifically to C?

---Dan