<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi everybody,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a question with respect to the XLE grammar RULES section. We found in some grammar the following definitions in the RULES section:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">ADVERBIAL = { PP: ! $ (^ ADJUNCT); </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> | AdvP: ! $ (^ ADJUNCT); </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> | DP: ! $ (^ ADJUNCT) </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> (! PSEM) =c temp ;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> | CP: ! $ (^ ADJUNCT) </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> (! ADJUNCT $ GLOSS TRANS) = if }</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> (INTERNALPUNCT).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> PREPOBJ = { PP: (^ OBJ) = ! </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> | DP: (^ OBJ) = ! }.</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is the “=“ in these rules equivalent to “—>” or is this something else. What is the semantics, if these two are different? In the documentation I have not seen the use of “=“. Is there some more detailed or extended documentation that goes into more such details?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks a lot!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DC</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></body></html>