Would have replied "the syntax is so small it might appear empty"!

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Peter
William Lount
Sent: 04 September 2007 7:27 pm
To: Mark Volkmann
Cc: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: Fear and loathing of the "perification" of Smalltalk


Mark Volkmann wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Peter William Lount wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Jon Hylands wrote:
>>
>> > I like things that are simple. One of the reasons I like Smalltalk 
>> > so much is because it is simple. The BNF chart for the language is 
>> > incredibly small.
>
> Do you know where I could find a BNF chart for Smalltalk? I've
> searched for grammars and came up empty.
>
> ---
> Mark Volkmann
>
>
Hi Mark,

The Smalltalk Blue Book has a copy of the original BNF as a visual 
diagram at the back of the book, pages 737 through 741.

You can download a pdf copy form ACM.org here:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=273&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=28725035&CFTO
KEN=39135639

Peter