Re: Compiling expressions

Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:31:02 -0300

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From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:31:02 -0300
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 12-12-035 12-12-036 13-01-006
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 14 Jan 2013 14:57:29 EST

James Harris said:


> Compiling expressions is turning out to be more 'interesting' than I
> anticipated! My requirements I believe to be fairly generic but they seem
> not to be supported by standard algorithms so it's not as simple as it
> might be.


Your requirements seem to match operator precedence parsing closely.
Look at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_parser>.
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