Grammar ambiguity

"Vassilis Kostakos" <ma9vk@bath.ac.uk>
6 Mar 2000 23:51:14 -0500

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From: "Vassilis Kostakos" <ma9vk@bath.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Mar 2000 23:51:14 -0500
Organization: School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK
Keywords: parse, question

Would it be correct to say that an ambiguous grammar is a "wrong" one?
I believe that one language can be described by more than one grammar
(at least that's what I was taught). Therefore, we can change our
ambig grammar to an unambigious one. However, does this mean that
any ambiguous grammar is "wrong"?
[Nope. You might have a situation where any of the ambiguous parses
are acceptable, or external rules to choose which of a set of parses
to use. -John]









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