[Ur] Grammar inconsistencies
Adam Chlipala
adamc at impredicative.com
Sat Nov 5 09:41:06 EDT 2011
Ron de Bruijn wrote:
> I made some examples showing some apparent inconsistencies between the
> documented SQL grammar and the implemented SQL grammar.
Only the second of these prompts a manual tweak, as I see it.
> (* now, pick rule Q -> q -> P -> p,+ , this doesn't work. *)
>
> val notok:transaction (option {T : {A : a, B : b}}) = oneOrNoRows
> (SELECT t.{{c}}, FROM t)
Section 4.1 of the manual lays out some possibly non-standard
conventions for interpreting grammar rules. In particular "e,+" stands
for a sequence of "e"s separated by commas, not a nonempty sequence of
"e," units.
> (* let's take another derivation:
> Q -> q -> P -> p -> E AS f
> ..... .....
> .. ....
> ... ..
> .. ...
> t.{{c}} Whatever
>
>
> => t.{{c}} AS MyColumnName is a valid derivation
Good catch. Fixed by changing the first production of "E".
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