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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 'C', is it's grammar context sensitive ?
Message-ID: <999@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 90 21:02:20 GMT
References: <1990Aug23.164905.10261@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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In article <1990Aug23.164905.10261@NCoast.ORG> ramsey@NCoast.ORG (Cedric Ramsey) writes:
>I was studying the grammar for the 'C' language and I couldn't 
>help but notice that for declarations the grammar is context sensitive.
>Look at this here:
>
>[declarations deleted]

It is my experience in parsing a language that is similar to C that
the lexical analyser must be "symbol-table-aware".  In C you can
get into a sticky situation with typenames being used in declarations
and casts.  If you are using a yacc-like parser, a typename should be
something other than a generic IDENTIFIER to avoid ambiguities.

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Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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