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From: bourguet@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada)
Date: 1999/10/26
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In article <7v30jd$3i6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <7v2400$e02$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> > You ought to consider getting a good yacc book. I use the
> O'Reilly
> > Lex/Yacc nutshell book, and it seems quite good. It has a
> whole chapter
> > on Yacc conflicts that you might find most helpful.
> (Reduce/Reduce
> > roughly means a series of tokens matches 2 rules and it can't
> decide
> > which to use).
>
> I find it appalling that people use such rusty tools as YACC
> and AYACC, these are very limited tools which seem to completely
> ignore the considerable advances in this area in the last 25
> years!

Could you post some references to books or web pages or good keywords
to reduce the space search on the web. All books that I know off which
speak about parser generators are at the level of LL(1) or simplified
LR(1) (LALR(1) or other way of reducing the LR tables) except T.J. Parr
book on PCCTS which describe more how to use PCCTS than its
"redefinition" of LL(k) and how to use it to build a parser generator.
Web pages I've found with my naive keyword approaches have not be of
more use; some buzzwords like OO where added but if they were more than
buzzwords, it was not clear for me.

Thanks,

-- Jean-Marc


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