Appendix B
Programming Language
Sean Parent and Bjarne Stroustrup
This appendix defines the subset of C++ used in the book. To simplify the syntax, we use a few library facilities as intrinsics. These intrinsics are not written in this subset but take advantage of other C++ features. Section B.1 defines this subset; Section B.2 specifies the implementation of the intrinsics.
B.1 Language Definition
Syntax Notation
An Extended Backus-Naur Form designed by Niklaus Wirth is used. Wirth [1977, pages 822–823] describes it as follows:
The word identifier is used to denote nonterminal symbol, and literal stands for terminal symbol. For brevity, identifier and character are not defined in further detail.
Repetition is denoted by curly brackets, i.e., ...
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