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Subject: LANGUAGE OF ANS FORTH
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Date: 19 Dec 89 04:19:08 GMT
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 Date: 12-17-89 (09:38)              Number: 328
   To: JERRY SHIFRIN                 Refer#: 326
 From: IAN GREEN                       Read: NO
 Subj: LANGUAGE OF ANS FORTH         Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

    Yes that is the idea I was looking for. That and examples of code 
 relative to the syntax charts.

 >Actually, for reasons which are beyond me, CH Ting did do a BNF
 >for Forth. You can find it in his FORTH Notebook from Offete
 >Enterprises or in the 2/82 issue of Dr. Dobb's. As near as I can
 >tell, the BNF description of Forth should be something like:
   <word> ::= (<non-blank character> ... )
   <Forth program> ::= { <Forth program> [<word> ...]}


     If you or someone has the complete BNF syntax for Forth (I am 
 currently playing with L&Ps F83.COM). This I feel would go a long way 
 towards clarifying the way the language works.

 To be more in keeping with EBNF I would suspect that that Forth would 
 be defined something like:

 Program := { Word }            
 Word := ":" Identifier { Word | Number } ";"
  :          :
  :          :

 The problem is though I can write the syntax for a familiar language 
 fairly easily Forth is not so easily figured out.

 Thanks, Ian Green

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