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Mon Nov 29 03:51:27 CET 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-November/050138.html

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>Right.  Over-clarification results in docs that read like the
>>>instructions for the holy hand grenade ;-)
>>
>>Well said.
> 
> 
> Except that now I can't find the adjacent string literals in the
> grammar any more!
> 
> I'm looking al http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/ref/grammar.txt
> 
> The path goes from primary to atom to literal to stringliteral (and
> from there on into lexical detail) and nowhere does the grammar show
> that multiple string literals are allowed. Adding a single + after
> stringliteral in the expansion for literal would fix this
[SNIP]

But if you look at Grammar/Grammar you will notice that atom goes to STRING+ 
which should cover this.  Is that grammar.txt file generated from 
Grammar/Grammar or is it done by hand?

-Brett

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