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From: bourguet@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Ayacc/Aflex "entropy" (P2Ada)
Date: 1999/10/27
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In article <7v5ns8$2h1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <3816331A.99C596D2@mitre.org>,
>   "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> wrote:
> >     One alternative would be to use a parser generator which
> uses
> > Early's algorithm.  Early's algorithm will cheerfully accept
> any LR(k)
> > grammar, and parse it quite fast, but it can also accept and
> recognize
> > ambiguous grammars, but the performance degrades to O(n**3).

I did knew about Early's algorithm, but thanks for reminding me about
it.

> I think the parsing algorithm is less of an issue than error
> recovery, the error recovery of YACC is pathetic. It is
> surprising what can be done with automatic generators in
> this area.

If you were speaking about error recovery, I knew that there where
better than the non existant automatic and crude manual one of YACC.

-- Jean-Marc


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