RFC 822 的 BNF 规则中的符号是什么意思?

What does the ampersand mean in RFC 822's BNF rules?

The IETF RFC 822 有这些 BNF 规则:

text        =  <any CHAR, including bare         ; => atoms, specials,
                CR & bare LF, but NOT            ;  comments and
                including CRLF>                  ;  quoted-strings are
                                                 ;  NOT recognized.

qtext       =  <any CHAR excepting <">,          ; => may be folded
                "\" & CR, and including
                linear-white-space>

dtext       =  <any CHAR excluding "[",          ; => may be folded
                "]", "\" & CR, & including 
                linear-white-space>

我想知道这些规则中的符号 & 表示什么。 RFC 822 自己的符号约定部分(第 2 节)未定义与符号。我假设 RFC 822 将 RFC 733 用于其 BNF/ABNF,但 RFC 733 也没有定义与符号的含义。

根据上下文,我确定了符号 表示以下任何内容:

在 RFC 822 的勘误表中没有提及这一点 - 而 RFC 的后继 RFC(如 2822)用全新规则将规则替换为 & 符号,因此我无法从新语法中推断出它的含义。

那么&是什么意思?

Shorthand英文单词"and"。它甚至遵守英文标点符号规则。

比较 RFC 822 中的两个定义:

     qtext       =  <any CHAR excepting <">,     ; => may be folded
                     "\" & CR, and including
                     linear-white-space>

     dtext       =  <any CHAR excluding "[",     ; => may be folded
                     "]", "\" & CR, & including
                     linear-white-space>