earley parser completion (newbie question)

sinistral <marc.daya@gmail.com>
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:48:32 -0700 (PDT)

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earley parser completion (newbie question) marc.daya@gmail.com (sinistral) (2009-10-11)
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From: sinistral <marc.daya@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:48:32 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: parse, question
Posted-Date: 11 Oct 2009 14:37:21 EDT

Greetings


I've been trying to understand the workings of the Earley algorithm
and I'm having trouble with the example presented on Wikipedia:


      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earley_parser


What I don't understand in this example is why state set S(3) doesn't
include the state


      S -> M dot # complete from S(0)(3)


Since we have a completion for the non-terminal M, wouldn't this be a
valid completion?


Any pointers as to what I'm missing would be greatly appreciated.
.marc


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