[erlang-questions] sytax of atoms

[Caoyuan Deng]

There is an LALR-1 grammar definition similar to yacc:
lib/stdlib-1.14.4/src/erl_parse.yrl

And as I'm writing a Erlang IDE for NetBeans, I also wrote a LL(k)
grammar definition for Erlang:
http://erlybird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/erlybird/trunk/erlybird/erlybird-erlang-editor/src/org/netbeans/modules/languages/erlang/Erlang.nbs?revision=96&view=markup

For the Atom, it's something like:
TOKEN:atom: (
    ["a"-"z"] ["a"-"z" "A"-"Z" "0"-"9" "_" "@"]* |
    "\'" ([^ "\\" "\'" "\n" "\r"] |
          ("\\" (. |
                 (["0"-"7"]) |
                 (["0"-"7"] ["0"-"7"]) |
                 (["0"-"7"] ["0"-"7"] ["0"-"7"])
                 ("^" ["@" "A"-"Z" "["-"_"])
                )
          )
    )*
    "\'"
)


On 4/14/07, Tony Finch <dot@REDACTED> wrote:
> The reference manual doesn't say that dots are permitted in atoms but they
> seem to be, e.g. in unquoted long node names.
>
> Is there a formal grammar (e.g. BNF) of Erlang anywhere?
>
> Tony.
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