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Le 13/01/2015 00:49, Randy Brukardt a écrit :
> A true semantic interface would talk about semantic entities only, the 
> associated syntax would not enter into it.

That would be a semantic ONLY interface, but syntax is also useful for
some tools (especially coding rules checkers ;-) ).

For example, checking that "end" mentions the entity name is 100%
syntactic...

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