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Date:   Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:08:13 -0800
Reply-To:   Trond Ydersbond <t_a_ydersbond@YAHOO.NO>
Sender:   "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:   Trond Ydersbond <t_a_ydersbond@YAHOO.NO>
Organization:   http://groups.google.com
Subject:   Re: Grammar for the SAS language?
Comments:   To: sas-l@uga.edu
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On 9 Feb, 13:11, Savian <savian....@gmail.com> wrote: > Why do you need it? Are you going to create a parser? > > I have most of it (procs at least) but I am unsure whether I would > release it w/o knowing why. Similarly, I have the regex for a lot of > the language that I use in my SAS cleanup tool.

If you have any doubts about releasing, don't do it. And I'm sure quite a few have something similar to what you have... Having put quite a lot of work into it, too.. Think about that.

If you can't see why someone should need it, well, don't bother.

Then, you might think a bit about why R is such an enormous success.

If I can't find it elsewhere, I'm going to start doing a subset, usable for antlr. And I will publish it.

The list of potential uses for such a grammar is very, very long.

Trond


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