Definition:Formal Grammar/Top-Down

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Definition

Let $\LL$ be a formal language whose alphabet is $\AA$.


A top-down grammar for $\LL$ is a formal grammar which allows well-formed formulas to be built from a single metasymbol.

Such a grammar can be made explicit by declaring that:

From the words thus generated, those not containing any metasymbols are the well-formed formulas.


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