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CppCon 2018: Timur Doumler “Can I has grammar?”
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CppCon 2018: Timur Doumler “Can I has grammar?”
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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Programming languagesSystems programmingC++Language design and type systemsCompilers and interpreters
Timur Doumler delivers a lightning talk exploring the complexities and quirks of the C++ grammar.
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On “Are there any languages that use a PEG in their official specification?”
…s precise.
You're right that math doesn't have to be implemented to be math! PEGs would be a good foundation even if nobody had ever implemented them.
But I would say that a language with 2 implementations is more robust than a language with 1. It is more well-defined in practice.
Here is a 5 minute talk about C++ that illustrates the point:
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C++ has multiple implementations, which is great because the spec can be debugged!!! Most languages have a ton of implementation-defined behavior like this that they don't even know about! Literally nobody may have tried a particular combination of constructs.
> Separate from the original purpose of the OP, and without regard to the lac…