How to construct a grammar?

Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de>
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:25:43 +0200

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From: Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:25:43 +0200
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: parse, question
Posted-Date: 05 Jul 2008 09:17:41 EDT

I've read a bit about parsing and compilers once in a while (red
dragon, ANTLR reference), but have no experience building one. To my
embarrassment I realized that I have no clear idea how to construct a
grammar for an existing language.


So, I'm wondering, is there a systematic way to get from a suitable
list of language samples, i.e, without a formal definition to start
with, to a grammar?


Michael


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