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   Hans Aberg to Seima Rao   
   Re: Semantics, opt in Semantics   
   16 Jan 15 18:20:13   
   
   From: haberg-news@telia.com   
      
   On 2015/01/15 13:12, Seima Rao wrote:   
   >      Is there something similar for semantics i.e. is there something   
   optional   
   >      in semantics.   
   ...   
   > [Man, there's a can of worms. There's no semantic formalism that matches real   
   > semantics as well as BNF matches real syntax. -John]   
      
   There is denotational semantics, though. Dave Schmidt's 1986 book is now   
   available for free:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotational_semantics   
   http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/text/densem.html   
      
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