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Erlang syntax

Hi folks, I'm going to create Erlang language support plugin for an Intellij Idea. The big and first problem I have is in the JFlex erlang syntax definition. Does anybody know where can I get EBNF or BNF for Erlang?

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Why not go straight to the source? The Erlang 4.7 specification lists productions in a grammar.

Jacob  2008-10-24 10:35:01
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Sure. That was the first thing I thought about and I did. But, as I can see there should be lot of work done to make ebnf from this specification. And probably already exists ready solution that I can simply reuse.

Andrew Dashin  2008-10-24 11:59:24
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Have a look at lib/compiler/src/core_parse.yrl in the otp source distribution.

 2008-10-27 17:08:43

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