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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

21 (soon 22)/Male/Bloomington, IN/

quote:

Sandwich = Bread Condiments Meat Bread
Bread = "rye" | "wheat" | "white"
Condiments = (["relish"] ["mustard"] ["ketchup"]) | "mayonnaise"
Meat = ["ham"] (["prosciutto"] | ["turkey"])

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

DOH! I coulda dobied! That's the first thing I thought when I saw the other thread... [Grumble]

Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :

I'll take a wheat relish mayo prosciutto wheat.

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

31/M/UT

My grammar's name is Marianne.

Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :

ham and prosciutto are the same thing.

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

rav:

Not possible [Razz]

Can't have relish on the same sandwich as relish, check the grammar [Smile]

[ January 06, 2005, 01:46 AM: Message edited by: fugu13 ]

Posted by Ginol_Enam (Member # 7070) on :

quote:
DOH! I coulda dobied! That's the first thing I thought when I saw the other thread... [Grumble]

That's what that means? I was wondering...

Anyway...

17/M/OK/I hate it when people say "good" when they should say "well."

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

And prosciutto is a very specific sort of ham rather different from what most people mean when they say "ham" in reference to sandwich meat.

Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :

if you want to get specific, are you referring to prosciutto cotto or prosciutto crudo?

edit: spelling mishap and to add... both of which are very good.

[ January 06, 2005, 01:51 AM: Message edited by: gnixing ]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Can't have relish on the same sandwich as relish, check the grammar

I will never understand Geeklish.

[ January 06, 2005, 01:51 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

That's Context-Free Grammar-ish [Razz]

The line:

quote:

Condiments = (["relish"] ["mustard"] ["ketchup"]) | "mayonnaise"

means that the symbol Condiments can be/must be substituted for by possibly relish, possibly mustard, and possibly ketchup OR by mayonnaisse (that is, it can't be present with the others).

Basically, the [ ] mean an item is optional, ( ) are used to group things like in math (so we see what goes together, but it doesn't mean any operation is being performed), and | is a way of saying or.

Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :

One can go outside of your 'laws' and still eat.

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

Certainly, but its not a legal sandwich in my grammar. The syntax is wrong, which means it has flawed semantics [Razz]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

But how does that translate to not having relish on the same sandwich as relish? That doesn't even make SENSE?

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

Heh, oops. Meant to say you can't have mayonnaise on the same sandwich as relish.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Posted by esl (Member # 3143) on :

I got an A in syntax and I didn't even recognize the forms. Thanks for the review, fugu.

Posted by Choobak (Member # 7083) on :

25/M/Paris (Fr)/Sylvain

I don't understand what is this thread, but it's fun. What terrible sandwitch !

Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :

I admit I don't fully understand your syntactical system, but here goes:

Shigosei = age sex location
age = "19"
sex = "female"
location = "Oregon" | "Arizona"

Fugu, I'd like a turkey sandwich on wheat bread with mustard. And I'm afraid despite your parameters I'm going to have some illicit lettuce on it as well.

Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :

(5) Synax Error: Invalid token!

*shakes fist* Damn you BNF grammar!