Re: Reduce/Reduce conflict in Algol60 grammar

Ken Rose <kenrose@nc-sys.com>
14 Oct 2006 16:09:23 -0400

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From: Ken Rose <kenrose@nc-sys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Oct 2006 16:09:23 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-10-057 06-10-058
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 14 Oct 2006 16:09:23 EDT

> [Has there ever been a useful truly context free parser? All the ones I've
> written have cheated by using symbol table info to decide what symbol to
> return for a variable name and the like. I presume that's what Chris
> is suggesting. -John]


Well, you can just parse everything and stash it in an AST, and then
build and reference the symbol table in a later walk of the AST. How
to handle typedefs this way isn't clear to me, but there may be a way
that doesn't involve horrible amounts of nondeterminism.


  - ken



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