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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the ....
Date: 1996/02/25
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Date: 1996-02-25T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Eachus said

"A'B'('"','A','B','C',... is the canononical "horrible" case"

This is of course an academic discussion of no pragmatic interest whatsoever,
since it is talking about a problem that we all agree is not a problem any
more.

BUt, given that, sorry, I don't see that there EVER was a problem with
unbounded lookahead, since there never were any one character attribute
names in the language. Certainly when we implemented Ada 79, we had no
problems with such ambiguities.