Re: JLex and CUP Help!!

This may not be helpful, sorry. CUP uses a slightly different syntax
than YACC (BISON and etc.). Other than that, the expressions are
identical. From memory, one possible syntax (in YACC) for the
conditional expression is:


    condExpression : IF '(' boolean_expression ')' THEN '(' expression
')'
                                  | IF '(' boolean_expression ')' THEN '(' expression
')'
                                      ELSE '(' expression ')'
                                  ;


Where: IF, THEN, and ELSE are keywords returned by the lexer,
                '(' is (also) returned by the lexer, and
                boolean_expression and expression are other syntactic elements
                    in your language.
                ; is a symbol in the CUP/YACC meta-language


This is all from memory and since I haven't input it to YACC it might
have a problem. However, the idea is there.


If the parenthesis are not required then you might have a LALR(1)
conflict (or two). If you do, you might consider adding an expression
terminator (';') or separator.


art




> I am trying to learn JLex and CUP again after a long time of not using
> it.
>
> I want to model a simple IF-ELSE statement in CUP. I think I can
> figure out the JLex, but the CUP is giving me trouble.
>
> Problem I want to represent:
> IF (BOOLEAN EXPRESSION) THEN (EXPRESSION) ELSE (EXPRESSION)

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