ChaiScript/grammar/chaiscript.ebnf
leftibot 05d866ab49 Fix #628: Add EBNF grammar for railroad diagram generation
Add a formal EBNF grammar file (grammar/chaiscript.ebnf) that can be
pasted into rr (https://www.bottlecaps.de/rr/ui) to produce navigable
railroad diagrams of ChaiScript's syntax. The grammar was validated
against the parser implementation and covers all language constructs
including class inheritance, guard conditions, raw strings, and const
declarations that were missing from the original proposal. A reference
section was added to the cheatsheet, and a regression test exercises
every documented grammar construct.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-12 16:45:49 -06:00

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EBNF

/*
* ChaiScript Grammar EBNF for Railroad Diagram Generation
*
* View as navigable railroad diagrams at:
* https://www.bottlecaps.de/rr/ui (IPv6)
* https://rr.red-dove.com/ui (IPv4)
*
* Copy and paste this file into the 'Edit Grammar' tab, then
* click 'View Diagram'.
*
* This grammar uses the notation accepted by
* https://github.com/GuntherRademacher/rr :
* - "::=" as rule separator
* - no semicolon at end of rule
* - "?" "+" "*" for repetition
* - C comments
*/
/* ---- Top-level ---- */
statements ::= ( def | try | if | while | class | for
| switch | return | break | continue
| equation | block | eol )+
/* ---- Functions ---- */
def ::= "def" id ( "::" id )? "(" decl_arg_list ")" eol*
( ":" guard )? eol* block
lambda ::= "fun" ( "[" id_arg_list "]" )? "(" decl_arg_list ")" eol* block
guard ::= operator
/* ---- Exception handling ---- */
try ::= "try" eol* block catch* finally?
catch ::= "catch" ( "(" arg ")" )? eol* block
finally ::= "finally" eol* block
/* ---- Control flow ---- */
if ::= "if" "(" equation ( eol equation )? ")" eol* block
( "else" ( if | eol* block ) )*
while ::= "while" "(" operator ")" eol* block
for ::= "for" "(" ( for_guards | equation ":" equation ) ")" eol* block
for_guards ::= equation eol equation eol equation
switch ::= "switch" "(" operator ")" eol* "{" ( case | default )+ "}"
case ::= "case" "(" operator ")" eol* block
default ::= "default" eol* block
/* ---- Classes ---- */
class ::= "class" id ( ":" id )? eol* class_block
class_block ::= "{" class_statements* "}"
class_statements ::= def | var_decl | eol
/* ---- Blocks & flow keywords ---- */
block ::= "{" statements* "}"
return ::= "return" operator?
break ::= "break"
continue ::= "continue"
/* ---- Line termination ---- */
eol ::= "\n" | "\r\n" | ";"
/* ---- Equations & operators ---- */
equation ::= operator ( ( "=" | ":=" | "+=" | "-=" | "*=" | "/="
| "%=" | "<<=" | ">>=" | "&=" | "^=" | "|=" )
equation )?
operator ::= prefix
| value
| operator binary_operator operator
| operator "?" operator ":" operator
prefix ::= ( "++" | "--" | "-" | "+" | "!" | "~" ) operator
binary_operator ::= "||" | "&&"
| "|" | "^" | "&"
| "==" | "!="
| "<" | "<=" | ">" | ">="
| "<<" | ">>"
| "+" | "-"
| "*" | "/" | "%"
/* ---- Values & access ---- */
value ::= var_decl | dot_fun_array | prefix
dot_fun_array ::= ( lambda | num | quoted_string
| single_quoted_string | raw_string
| paren_expression | inline_container
| id )
( fun_call | array_call | dot_access )*
fun_call ::= "(" arg_list ")"
array_call ::= "[" operator "]"
dot_access ::= "." id
/* ---- Variable declarations ---- */
var_decl ::= ( "auto" | "var" | "const" ) ( reference | id )
| "global" ( reference | id )
| "attr" id ( "::" id )?
reference ::= "&" id
/* ---- Parenthesised & inline containers ---- */
paren_expression ::= "(" operator ")"
inline_container ::= "[" container_arg_list "]"
container_arg_list ::= value_range
| map_pair ( "," map_pair )*
| operator ( "," operator )*
value_range ::= operator ".." operator
map_pair ::= operator ":" operator
/* ---- String literals ---- */
quoted_string ::= '"' ( char | escape | interpolation )* '"'
single_quoted_string ::= "'" ( char | escape ) "'"
raw_string ::= 'R"' delimiter? "(" char* ")" delimiter? '"'
delimiter ::= [a-zA-Z0-9_]+
interpolation ::= "${" equation "}"
/* ---- Escape sequences ---- */
escape ::= "\" ( "'" | '"' | "?" | "\" | "a" | "b"
| "f" | "n" | "r" | "t" | "v" | "$"
| "0"
| "x" hex_digit+
| "u" hex_digit hex_digit hex_digit hex_digit
| "U" hex_digit hex_digit hex_digit hex_digit
hex_digit hex_digit hex_digit hex_digit
| octal_digit+ )
/* ---- Argument lists ---- */
id_arg_list ::= id ( "," id )*
decl_arg_list ::= ( arg ( "," arg )* )?
arg_list ::= ( equation ( "," equation )* )?
arg ::= id id?
/* ---- Identifiers ---- */
id ::= ( [a-zA-Z_] [a-zA-Z0-9_]* )
| ( "`" [^`]+ "`" )
| "true" | "false"
| "Infinity" | "NaN"
| "_"
| "__LINE__" | "__FILE__" | "__FUNC__" | "__CLASS__"
/* ---- Numeric literals ---- */
num ::= hex | binary | float | integer
hex ::= "0" ( "x" | "X" ) [0-9a-fA-F]+ int_suffix*
binary ::= "0" ( "b" | "B" ) [01]+ int_suffix*
float ::= [0-9]+ "." [0-9]+ ( ( "e" | "E" ) ( "+" | "-" )? [0-9]+ )? float_suffix?
integer ::= [0-9]+ int_suffix*
int_suffix ::= "l" | "L" | "ll" | "LL" | "u" | "U"
float_suffix ::= "l" | "L" | "f" | "F"
/* ---- Character classes ---- */
octal_digit ::= [0-7]
hex_digit ::= [0-9a-fA-F]
char ::= [^"\]