It still doesn't seem like two separate issues to me. How about the
following as a statement of the issue?
At the moment the only way to reference a named pattern in an external
grammar is by using a pattern of the form
<grammar>
<include href="u">
<start>
<ref name="n"/>
</start>
</include>
</grammar>
This is a little complicated and makes it tricky for implementors to avoid
rereading the grammar for each such <include>. Should we do something
about this, and if so what?
--On 10 July 2001 13:36 +0900 Murata Makoto <> wrote:
>
>> Are these two separate issues? I thought the issue was
>>
>> "Shall we change the language syntax by adding a shorthand for ... so
>> that it becomes easier to avoid rereading external grammars?"
>
> Changes other than the proposed shorthand might be more useful in
> avoiding rereading external grammars. I do not want to eliminate
> that possibility.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Makoto
>
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