BNFC-2.9.0: src/BNFC.cf

{-
    BNF Converter: Language definition
    Copyright (C) 2004  Author: Markus Forsberg, Michael Pellauer, Aarne Ranta


-}

-- A Grammar is a sequence of definitions

Grammar . Grammar ::= [Def] ;

-- separator Def ";" ;  -- Note: this still permits a final semicolon.
[].       [Def] ::= ;
(:[]).    [Def] ::= Def ;
(:).      [Def] ::= Def ";" [Def] ;
-- extra semicolons allowed
_.        [Def] ::= ";" [Def] ;

-- The rules of the grammar
Rule .    Def ::= Label "." Cat "::=" [Item] ;

-- Items
Terminal  . Item ::= String ;
NTerminal . Item ::= Cat ;

terminator Item "" ;

-- Categories (non-terminals)
ListCat  . Cat ::= "[" Cat "]" ;
IdCat    . Cat ::= Identifier ;

separator Cat "," ; -- for "entrypoints"

-- Labels
Id       . Label ::= Identifier          ;  -- AST constructor
Wild     . Label ::= "_"                 ;  -- No AST constructor (embedding)
ListE    . Label ::= "[" "]"             ;  -- Empty list
ListCons . Label ::= "(" ":" ")"         ;  -- Cons
ListOne  . Label ::= "(" ":" "[" "]" ")" ;  -- Singleton list

-- Pragmas
Comment  .  Def ::= "comment"  String                     ; -- Line comment
Comments .  Def ::= "comment"  String String              ; -- Block comment
Internal .  Def ::= "internal" Label "." Cat "::=" [Item] ; -- No parsing, AST and printing only
Token.      Def ::=            "token" Identifier Reg     ; -- Lexer token
PosToken.   Def ::= "position" "token" Identifier Reg     ; -- Lexer token with position info
Entryp.     Def ::= "entrypoints" [Cat]                   ; -- Names of parsers
Separator.  Def ::= "separator"   MinimumSize Cat String  ; -- List
Terminator. Def ::= "terminator"  MinimumSize Cat String  ; -- List
Delimiters. Def ::= "delimiters"  Cat String String Separation MinimumSize;
Coercions.  Def ::= "coercions"   Identifier Integer      ; -- Embeddings and parenthesized exprs.
Rules.      Def ::= "rules"       Identifier "::=" [RHS]  ; -- Automatically generated lables (e.g. enums)
Function.   Def ::= "define"      Identifier [Arg] "=" Exp;

Arg.        Arg ::= Identifier ;
separator   Arg "" ;

-- Lists
SepNone.    Separation ::= ;
SepTerm.    Separation ::= "terminator" String;
SepSepar.   Separation ::= "separator"  String;

-- Layout
Layout.     Def ::= "layout" [String]        ; -- Layout start keywords
LayoutStop. Def ::= "layout" "stop" [String] ; -- Layout stop keywords
LayoutTop.  Def ::= "layout" "toplevel"      ; -- Should the toplevel be a block?

separator nonempty String "," ;

-- Expressions for "define" pragma
Cons.       Exp  ::= Exp1 ":" Exp ;
App.        Exp1 ::= Identifier [Exp2] ;
Var.        Exp2 ::= Identifier ;
LitInt.     Exp2 ::= Integer ;
LitChar.    Exp2 ::= Char ;
LitString.  Exp2 ::= String ;
LitDouble.  Exp2 ::= Double ;
List.       Exp2 ::= "[" [Exp] "]" ;

coercions   Exp 2;

separator   Exp ","        ; -- list list
separator nonempty Exp2 "" ; -- argument list

RHS.      RHS ::= [Item] ;
separator nonempty RHS "|" ;

-- List size condition
MNonempty.  MinimumSize ::= "nonempty" ;
MEmpty.     MinimumSize ::=  ;

-- Regular expressions

RAlt.     Reg  ::= Reg  "|" Reg1  ;  -- left-associative

RMinus.   Reg1 ::= Reg1 "-" Reg2  ;  -- left-associative

RSeq.     Reg2 ::= Reg2 Reg3      ;  -- left-associative

RStar.    Reg3 ::= Reg3 "*"       ;
RPlus.    Reg3 ::= Reg3 "+"       ;
ROpt.     Reg3 ::= Reg3 "?"       ;

REps.     Reg3 ::= "eps"          ;  -- empty string, same as {""}

RChar.    Reg3 ::= Char           ;  -- single character
RAlts.    Reg3 ::= "[" String "]" ;  -- list of alternative characters
RSeqs.    Reg3 ::= "{" String "}" ;  -- character sequence

RDigit.   Reg3 ::= "digit"        ;
RLetter.  Reg3 ::= "letter"       ;
RUpper.   Reg3 ::= "upper"        ;
RLower.   Reg3 ::= "lower"        ;
RAny.     Reg3 ::= "char"         ;

coercions Reg 3;

-- LBNF identifiers

position token Identifier letter (letter | digit | '_')* ;

-- Comments in BNF source
comment "--"      ;
comment "{-" "-}" ;