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From: chekmate@athena.mit.edu (Adam Kao)
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Subject: Re: ANSI grammar questions
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Date: 13 Nov 88 17:52:31 GMT
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I just realized it's common in C to have things like "unsigned short int",
which my modification doesn't parse.  (A jellybean for whoever guesses how
long I've been using C.)  Still, I can think of a couple ways to parse these
cases without being as lax as the current grammar.  Why isn't this grammar
more precise?  It would only have to be a little more complicated.

By the way, I'm using the 9nov87 draft grammar.
Adam