Re: Grammar ambiguity

"Jocelyn Coulmance" <j.coulmance@itecor.com>
3 Mar 2000 09:01:46 -0500

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From: "Jocelyn Coulmance" <j.coulmance@itecor.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Mar 2000 09:01:46 -0500
Organization: Guest of France-Teaser
References: 00-02-015 00-02-049 00-02-147
Keywords: parse

Joachim Durchholz <joachim.durchholz@halstenbach.com.or.de> a écrit


> > p1
> > (a+b).p2 -- 2 different instructions since there is a line
> > termination in between
> >
> > p1; (a+b).p2 -- idem since there is a semicolon
> >
> > p1(a+b).p2 -- only one instruction
>
> Hmm... yes, I've been thinking along these lines. Unfortunately, this
> prevents me from having multi-line expressions. I've tried to work
> around this, but the results were not encouraging.


In this case, I would use an escape sequence, say "...", before line
termination:


p1 ...
(a+b).p2 -- only one instruction


Regards
Jocelyn

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