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documentation improvements; added system.gorge (for Araq's fun)

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Araq 2012-06-22 08:30:55 +02:00
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@ -33,10 +33,7 @@ with ``'``. An example::
ifStmt ::= 'if' expr ':' stmts ('elif' expr ':' stmts)* ['else' stmts]
Other parts of Nimrod - like scoping rules or runtime semantics are only
described in an informal manner. The reason is that formal semantics are
difficult to write and understand. However, there is only one Nimrod
implementation, so one may consider it as the formal specification;
especially since the compiler's code is pretty clean (well, some parts of it).
described in an informal manner for now.
Definitions
@ -157,6 +154,11 @@ underscores ``__`` are not allowed::
digit ::= '0'..'9'
IDENTIFIER ::= letter ( ['_'] (letter | digit) )*
Currently any unicode character with an ordinal value > 127 (non ASCII) is
classified as a ``letter`` and may thus be part of an identifier but later
versions of the language may assign some Unicode characters to belong to the
operator characters instead.
The following `keywords`:idx: are reserved and cannot be used as identifiers:
.. code-block:: nimrod