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From: gsteckel@East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: SQL grammar
Keywords: SQL, parse, yacc
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Date: 20 Jan 91 23:14:40 GMT
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I know of one (proprietary) SQL yacc grammar but it's really twisty -
multiple nested grammars, 1000+ productions & a nasty lexer-parser
interface.  It's about as bad a grammar as you can get and still make
it possible to parse systematically.

	geoff steckel (gwes@wjh12.harvard.EDU)
			(...!husc6!wjh12!omnivore!gws)
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