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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: State of the compiler market
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 09:44:36 +0100
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On 2017-02-26 01:11, Luke A. Guest wrote:

> Ada needs 2 token look ahead for that exact reason.

Not really, if the parser is aware of the context. A character literal 
may appear only when an operand is expected. Attribute may only in the 
context of an operation. They never meet.

(The Ada expressions parser in Simple Components does not have look ahead.)

> Ada's grammar in the RM is flawed in that it doesn't have the pragma's
> included and also over complicated.

Yes, it tries to pack some semantics into.

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