Re: The $ in predictive parsing tables

Ivan Boldyrev <boldyrev+nospam@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
11 Oct 2006 23:19:54 -0400

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From: Ivan Boldyrev <boldyrev+nospam@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Oct 2006 23:19:54 -0400
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References: 06-10-035
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 11 Oct 2006 23:19:54 EDT

On 9624 day of my life Andreas Ravnestad wrote:
> In predictive parsing tables there is often a column designated '$'. I
> can't find any explanations for this column in my notes. Can someone
> shed a light on what this means?


By convention, '$' designates artificial "End of file" sign in parsing
tables.


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Ivan Boldyrev

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