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   Andy Walker to Our moderator   
   Re: Can syntax be enough? No need of sem   
   18 Sep 09 18:01:16   
   
   From: news@cuboid.co.uk   
      
   Our moderator wrote:   
   > [I've never seen a grammar that could handle in a reasonable checks   
   > that variables are declared before use, and that types of subexpressions   
   > match. -John]   
      
   	Never seen a reasonable two-level grammar?  Fi!   
      
   	Whether it's sensible to handle semantics that way is another   
   matter, just as we have to ask whether to recognise identifiers via   
   the formal grammar or via special code in a lexer.   
      
   --   
   Andy Walker   
   Nottingham   
   [Good point.  So why don't we use them? -John]   
      
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