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bug #4322: Parser: Use tree representation of grammar production alternatives

Submitter:  Per Cederberg <cederberg>
Submitted:  Wed 16 Jul 2003 09:49:42 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  2 - Normal Item Group:  Future Improvement
Status:  None Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open

Wed 16 Jul 2003 09:49:42 AM UTC, original submission:  

Currently a grammar production consists of a list of production alternatives. Each alternative consists of a list of elements to be parsed. This causes problems, however, as the correct alternative must be chosen directly when entering a production.

The current solution involves calculating the look-ahead tokens for all alternatives. This may cause inherent ambiguities to be detected, although the ambiguity would be possible to resolve in a hand-written parser:

A = B+
  | B+ ... ;

A better representation would be a tree structure, allowing two alternatives to share a common left-hand part without requiring look-ahead tokens. The tree representation of the productions is probably only relevant for LL parsers.

Per Cederberg <cederberg>
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