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Subject: Re: recursive-descent error recovery
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 00:19:41 EDT
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A friend of mine (Jim Cordy), who's better organized than I am, has supplied
some properly-detailed references for people who are interested in error
recovery in general and error recovery in top-down parsers in particular.
The last reference in particular discusses the SP/k error recovery method
that I've described in the past.

    D.T. Barnard and R.C. Holt;
    Hierarchic Syntax Error Repair for LR Grammars;
    International Journal of Computer and Information
    Sciences 11,4 (1982) pp.231-258.
    Also Technical Report 81-127,
    Department of Computing and Information Science,
    Queen's University
    (October 1981)
    pp.1-28.

    D.T. Barnard; <<this one's a survey of the field>>
    Syntax Error Handling Techniques;
    Technical Report 81-125,
    Department of Computing and Information Science,
    Queen's University
    (September 1981)
    pp.1-23.

    D.T. Barnard;
    Hierarchic Syntax Error Repair;
    Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science,
    University of Toronto (March 1981) pp.1-253.

    D.T. Barnard;
    Automatic Generation of Syntax-Repairing and Paragraphing Parsers;
    Technical Report CSRG-52, Computer Systems Research Group,
    University of Toronto (April 1975) pp.1-132.
    M.Sc. Thesis.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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