Re: An "open" letter to Karsten Nyblad (and other compiler compiler implementors)

"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
23 Jun 2005 21:54:53 -0400

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From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 23 Jun 2005 21:54:53 -0400
Organization: Klub Nieszkodliwych =?iso-8859-2?q?Manjak=F3w?=
References: 05-06-099 05-06-104
Keywords: parse, LALR, comment
Posted-Date: 23 Jun 2005 21:54:53 EDT

SM Ryan <wyrmwif@tsoft.org> writes:


> # I only wonder, have not languages designers become cleverer in the
> # recent decades to invent languages that do not require the full
> # strength of LR(k)?
>
> Why not just use LR(k)? Inertia? Methods to avoid the combinatorial explosion
> of lookaheads have been known for years.


Aren't most grammars useful in practice either LR(1) or not LR(k) at all?
If lookahead is required, it rarely has a bounded length.


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