Re: What is the complement of context free language?

Tomasz Kowaltowski <tk@ic.unicamp.br>
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:52:08 -0300

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From: Tomasz Kowaltowski <tk@ic.unicamp.br>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:52:08 -0300
Organization: IC/UNICAMP
References: 07-06-006
Keywords: theory, parse
Posted-Date: 09 Jun 2007 10:23:30 EDT

> In many text books, they say that the complememt of context free
> language us not context free language . But they do not say the
> complemet of CFL is context sensitive language or Recursively
> enumerable language ? So what is the language of the complement of
> context free language?


The complement of a CFL is obviously not only recursively enumerable but
also recursive. Given a CF grammar G, it is easy to imagine a Turing
machine which checks if a given input string belongs to L(G); if so,
reject reject the input, if not, accept it.


-- tk



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