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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language,
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:51:46 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-06-18, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
> However, off the top of my head, I don't understand why you can't parse
> an Ada expression using recursive descent, especially if you have access
> to the symbol table (if you need it). Do you have an example, because
> the answer's probably obvious once you point it out. :-)
>

The above is a bit badly worded. It should say:

|However, off the top of my head, I don't understand why you can't parse
|an Ada expression using recursive descent, especially since you have
|access to the symbol table (if you need it to solve the specific problem
|you are thinking of).

IOW, I _think_ all ambiguity should be resolvable with a suitably rich
symbol table. Clearly that's not the case - and there's probably some
really obvious case I am missing. :-)

Simon.

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