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On 05/12/2024 10:20, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 05.12.2024 02:29, Tim Rentsch wrote:

>> Also, the idea that one can figure out the rules of the C language
>> by looking at compiler sources is just laughable.
> 
> Sure. (But that wasn't something that I said. By "sources" I did
> not mean "source code" but sources of information, books, etc.)
> 
> The idea to consider source code quasi as a [syntax-]"defining"
> source came from Bart elsethread.

If you look at the data parts of my compiler source code, then many 
elements of the syntax are listed: types, reserved words, operators, 
tokens, precedences, scopes, properties, conversions...

For the shape of the syntax, then since the compiler is self-hosted, 
then it serves also as a 30,000-line example of what it looks like.