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10.2.12.2 Grammar Rules

A Prolog program may contain one or more grammar rules. These grammar rules may be used to define the syntax of a language and to define a parser for that language.

A grammar rule takes the form:

grammar_head --> grammar_body.
Where grammar_head is a non-terminal symbol optionally followed by a terminal symbol. The body of the grammar rule is a sequence of terminals, non-terminals or grammar conditions, each separated by commas or semi-colons. A grammar condition is a sequence of Prolog call terms surrounded by curly brackets (’{’ and ’}’).