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fully-dereferenceable-expression

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fully-dereferenceable-expression railroad diagramRead left to right. Branches are alternatives, bypasses are optional, and loops repeat. Select a production to explore it. The EBNF and linked references follow below.Explore production: variable-expressionvariable-expression"("Explore production: expressionexpression")"Explore production: dereferenceable-scalardereferenceable-scalarExplore production: class-constantclass-constantExplore production: new-dereferenceablenew-dereferenceable
Production LiteralBranch: choiceBypass: optionalLoop: repeat
EBNF source
fully-dereferenceable-expression =
    variable-expression | "(" , expression , ")" | dereferenceable-scalar
    | class-constant | new-dereferenceable ;

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