draft: LR Parsing of Permutation Phrases

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:12:23 -0400

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:12:23 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
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Keywords: parse, paper
Posted-Date: 10 Oct 2024 09:14:37 EDT

A permutation phrase is one where the elements can appear in any order.
They are a pain to parse using LR methods since the an N element phrase
expands to N! possible alternative rules.


This paper proposes a tweak to LR parsing to handle them efficiently
that produces smaller parse tables.


https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06769


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John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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