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Autor: Hendrik Boom
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Assumpte: Re: [DNG] Studying C as told. (For help)
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 07:03:36AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:26:35AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since any grammar item has boundaries it makes sense for a syntax
> > checker to pass boundaries to syntax checking functions. The first
> > step would be to check the existence of an opening bracket and a
> > closing bracket. If more brackets follow the process should be
> > repeated.
> >
> > I think, this strategy should solve the problem with having multiple brackets.
> >
>
> Have you actually tried to implement that in your parser?
>
> I am not asking because I want to be pedantic, but rather because this
> is usually where parsing context-free languages becomes an enormous
> error-prone mess, and is the reason why we have tools like lex/flex
> and yacc/bison which take care of constructing the parser associated
> to a set of productions on your behalf.


It is precisely where recursive descent becomes a really easy wy of
writing a parser. This isn't a difficult language to hand-write a
parser for. Look up "recursive descent parsing" in the Wikipedia, and
you'll see how easy it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser

-- hendrik

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