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Subject: Re: EBNF
From: rumi.kg@gmail.com (Rune Kaagaard)

Dear internals

After enviously looking at pythons grammar
(http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/grammar.html) I keep feeling
that PHP is missing out on a lot of interesting meta projects by not
having an official EBNF.

Building your own PHP parser is _very_ hard and is PhD (Paul Biggar:)
level stuff if you wan't to get all the edge cases right. Having _the_
official EBNF would make this easier.

I know there is a lot of historical reasons for this and that creating
and maintaing said EBNF is a very serious task, one that is maybe too
big for a non-paying open source project.

But still I have to ask if I'm the only one thinking about this or is
there something I'm being completely ignorant about?

Happy newyear!
Rune Kaagaard