Re: Grammar problems

"Sebastian Moleski \(SurakWare\)" <smoleski@surakware.com>
28 Jan 2001 02:11:14 -0500

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From: "Sebastian Moleski \(SurakWare\)" <smoleski@surakware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 28 Jan 2001 02:11:14 -0500
Organization: T-Online
References: 01-01-158
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 28 Jan 2001 02:11:14 EST

"Michael Gerhardt" <gerhardt@schleissheimer.de>:
> I started generating a parser in a standard grammar with the compiler
> generator coco. I do not not know if anybody is used to this tool, but
> my main problem is in the grammar itself. I need to describe in which
> it is allowed that Identifiers (variable names, etc.) CAN be called
> like keywords. I do not know who made this specification, but this is
> a severe problem for me. I wrote the complete grammar and after runnig
> through a sample of code the error occured: Compilation error: keyword
> expected...


Just don't use parser/compiler generators. Write one yourself. If you
don't want to, I can send you the base package for our QP compiler
(written in C++). Since QP allows identifiers to be the same as
certain keywords, it would probably work with your base language.


sm

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