style-guide: Clarify grammar for small patterns (not a semantic change)

The grammar as written feels ambiguous and confusing, in large part
because it uses square brackets and commas in the names of
non-terminals. Rewrite it to avoid symbols in the names of
non-terminals, and to instead wrap terminals in backquotes.
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Josh Triplett 2023-07-05 14:40:07 -07:00
parent 5dac6b320b
commit cde67f6557

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@ -752,9 +752,9 @@ not put the `if` clause on a newline. E.g.,
}
```
If every clause in a pattern is *small*, but does not fit on one line, then the
pattern may be formatted across multiple lines with as many clauses per line as
possible. Again break before a `|`:
If every clause in a pattern is *small*, but the whole pattern does not fit on
one line, then the pattern may be formatted across multiple lines with as many
clauses per line as possible. Again break before a `|`:
```rust
foo | bar | baz
@ -763,17 +763,18 @@ possible. Again break before a `|`:
}
```
We define a pattern clause to be *small* if it matches the following grammar:
We define a pattern clause to be *small* if it fits on a single line and
matches "small" in the following grammar:
```
[small, ntp]:
- single token
- `&[single-line, ntp]`
small:
- smallntp
- unary tuple constructor: `(` smallntp `,` `)`
- `&` small
[small]:
- `[small, ntp]`
- unary tuple constructor `([small, ntp])`
- `&[small]`
smallntp:
- single token
- `&` smallntp
```
E.g., `&&Some(foo)` matches, `Foo(4, Bar)` does not.