User talk:Lord Farin/Backup/Definition:Formal Language/Primitive Symbol

Somehow I feel that the primitive symbols need to be the variables and constants of the language, but as currently stated it seems to encompass even the parentheses used to well-define the formulae; this is not very useful when applied to top-down formal grammar atm. --Lord_Farin 16:23, 14 June 2012 (EDT)


 * That's the definitions we're running with, as that's the definitions used in the works I consulted to get this section off the ground. There is another definition for variables and constants, it might be something like "terms" or something.


 * Everybody has their own ideas as to how these pages should be structured, and they're all more or less right. I don't know what the answer is apart from put every single variant down in "also known as" and "also defined as" sections. I confess that the muddle and confusion and complete lack of any sort of consistency throughout the literature cause me to throw the whole bloody subject across the room in frustration. --prime mover 16:29, 14 June 2012 (EDT)


 * While I can definitely recognise myself in that last statement; I gratefully thank GFP for finding (at least, at first sight) the page I was looking for and linking to it. --Lord_Farin 17:18, 14 June 2012 (EDT)