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From: joel@decwrl.dec.com
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Subject: Re: Can Pascal be parsed by LR(1) parsing algorithm?
Keywords: pascal, parse
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Date: 10 Oct 90 16:41:12 GMT
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Yacc is really a crude tool for parser construction.  After much
experimentation, I got yacc to not only accept Modula-2's statements, but
to report when you forgot to put in a missing semicolon as well.  I didn't
do the same for Pascal, as it was too much work.  You can find complete
grammars in the Modula-2/Pascal distribution available for anonymous ftp
from gatekeeper.dec.com, file /pub/DEC/Modula-2/m2.vax.tar.Z.  Here's the
relevant code for Modula-2, just to let you know the horrors of yacc
grammar c onstruction.


/* blame yacc for gross sequence syntax */
StatementSequence:
                StatementSequence1
                                /**/
        |       semis StatementSequence1 semis
                                { $$ = $2; }
        |       StatementSequence1 semis
                                /**/
        |       semis StatementSequence1
                                { $$ = $2; }
        |       semis
                                { $$ = AddToStmtList(0,0); }
        |       /* empty */
                                { $$ = AddToStmtList(0,0); }
        ;

StatementSequence1:
                StatementSequence1 semis statement
                                { $$ = AddToStmtList($1,$3); }
        |       StatementSequence1 { yyerror("Missing semicolon"); } statement
                                { $$ = AddToStmtList($1,$3); }
        |       statement
                                { $$ = AddToStmtList(0,$1); }
        ;

semis:
                SEMICOLON
        |       semis SEMICOLON
        ;



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