Help: get stocked in translation

[metaphox]

Hello all,

i was translating ECMAScript Spec, in section 5.1.4 "The Syntactic
Grammar" ( http://interglacial.com/javascript_spec/a-5.html ) i got
the following sentance:

The syntactic grammar as presented in sections 0, 0, 0 and 0 is
actually not a complete account of which token sequences are accepted
as correct ECMAScript programs.

would anyone please explain what does this weird "as presented in
sections 0, 0, 0 and 0" mean? I cannot find anything related to "0, 0,
0 and 0" in the whole spec.

thanks!

 

[VK]

Hello all,

i was translating ECMAScript Spec, in section 5.1.4 "The Syntactic
Grammar" (http://interglacial.com/javascript_spec/a-5.html) i got
the following sentance:

The syntactic grammar as presented in sections 0, 0, 0 and 0 is
actually not a complete account of which token sequences are accepted
as correct ECMAScript programs.

would anyone please explain what does this weird "as presented in
sections 0, 0, 0 and 0" mean? I cannot find anything related to "0, 0,
0 and 0" in the whole spec.

For the translation you should use the current ISO/IEC 16262:2002
document. A free copy can be downloaded at:
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2489/Ittf_Home/PubliclyAvailableStandards.htm

The original ECMA-262 publication of 1999 at
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
contains some editorial defaults: they were fixed on submitting to
ISO. In the particular the cross-reference bug in section 5.1.4 is
fixed in ISO version so reads as intended:
"The syntactic grammar as presented in sections 11, 12, 13 and 14"

 

[John G Harris]

Hello all,

i was translating ECMAScript Spec, in section 5.1.4 "The Syntactic
Grammar" ( http://interglacial.com/javascript_spec/a-5.html ) i got
the following sentance:

The syntactic grammar as presented in sections 0, 0, 0 and 0 is
actually not a complete account of which token sequences are accepted
as correct ECMAScript programs.

would anyone please explain what does this weird "as presented in
sections 0, 0, 0 and 0" mean? I cannot find anything related to "0, 0,
0 and 0" in the whole spec.

Version 2 of ECMA 262 said
"The syntactic grammar as presented in sections11, 12, 13, and 14 is
actually" ...

Version 3 should say the same. My guess is that the editor wrote 0
because he thought the section numbers might change, then forgot to
update them when the correct numbers were known.

John

 

[metaphox]

Great help. Thanks to you all.

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected]

i was translating ECMAScript Spec, in section 5.1.4 "The Syntactic
Grammar" ( http://interglacial.com/javascript_spec/a-5.html )

ISO 16262 would be better, since it is more recent. It should be linked
from the FAQ; it is linked via sig line 3.

Be aware of the Errata for 262.

It's a good idea to read the newsgroup c.l.j and its FAQ. See below.