[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Server/ruleset unification [Was [RFC PATCH] init_techs]

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:33:52AM -0700, Arien Malec wrote:
> Attached is an EBNF description describing my proposal for part of the unified
> language. I've left off help & server control for now. I've also left off the
> spec for attribute_value (which is where all the excitement is at the moment).
> 
> Things to note:
> 
> 1) The normal way to terminate a command is with '\n', but a create or object
> set command is terminated with ';\n', since those sorts of commands are likely
> to span lines

This is bad since the seperation f the commands into the two groups
isn't obvious to the user.

> 2) Many of the commands either take a simple attribute or an object spec. An
> object spec can always be distingushed by the presence of the reserved word
> 'object'.

Bad since "object" is redundant.

        Raimar

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