Meeting minutes
<norm> rrsagent draft minutes
Accept the minutes of the previous meeting
Agreed
Review of open actions
2024-03-05-c: SP to prepare pull request to resolve issue #139 (new grammars, new README)
Augmented by 2026-07-07, SP to replace his PR with three separate PRs.
Continues
Status reports
Bethan: Parser working
Norm: been working on transpiling the core of Coffee into C#
New issues
None.
Open issues
+ #369 Namespaces in test catalogue still point to GitHub
Norm: suggests changing the namespace to http://
john: what about https: ?
Agreed to use this namespace as http:
ACTION: Norm to look into possible other namespaces in the test-suite (such as Michael's)
+ #368 Add a symbol for "epsilon", don't allow absence of a symbol to be epsilon
https://
Norm: I'm strongly in favour of this to avoid error issues such as Nt | | Nt
Bethan: we can't use anything that is a name. We could use the empty string ''
Bethan: It matches 'nothing'
Norm: we don't permit empty strings at the moment
John: define '' to parse as a term epsilon
Some discussion about where it goes in the grammar
Some (slightly heated) argument about whether epsilon could go inside character classes
ACTION: Bethan to draft a discussion document
Modularization
Norm: I've been working on a document on use-cases for modularity. Any new ideas welcome. Hope to get something ready for next meeting
Ambiguity
Bethan: needs some category in the issue/PR space to collect those relevant to various types of ambiguity
Next Meeting
18th August (skipping the one that would fall during Balisage)