How to resolve ambiguity?

Hi,


  I am trying to write a custom compiler for C sharp,
but I am kind of stuck with the grammar MSDN provides,
for example, in the rule:


<struct-type> ::= <type-name>
                                                          | <simple-type>


<type-name> would reduce to <struct-type>,
and in


<class-type> ::= <type-name>
                                                          | object
                                                          | string


  <type-name> would reduce to <class-type>.
THis is evidently a reduce-reduce conflict.


  Could somebody explain why they provide a grammar like that
and how my parser-compiler is supposed to handle that
to not be ambiguous?


Please help, or direct me to the right location
Thank you very much

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