First and Follow sets

"Jan Schulze" <csuhu@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
20 May 2000 13:21:09 -0400

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From: "Jan Schulze" <csuhu@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 May 2000 13:21:09 -0400
Organization: University of Warwick, UK
Keywords: parse

Hi.


I am studying an introductory compiler design course at university. I
understand most of the concepts pretty well but seem to make many mistakes
when solving easy problems (the harder ones are usually solved correctly
.... that's me :-) ). Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could explain the
construction of First and Follow sets to me, for example for the following
grammar:


E ::= TE'
E' ::= +TE' | e
T ::= FT'
T' ::= *FT' | e
F ::= (E) | id


where E, E', T, T', F are nonterminals
(, ), *, +, id are terminals
and 'e' is the empty (epsilon) transition


I have acces to the guidelines in "Compilers - Principles, Techniques, and
Tools" (by Aho, Sethi and Ullman), but I semm to struggle with their
explanation.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in advance,


Jan

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