Re: recursive-descent error recovery

A friend of mine (Jim Cordy), who's better organized than I am, has supplied
some properly-detailed references for people who are interested in error
recovery in general and error recovery in top-down parsers in particular.
The last reference in particular discusses the SP/k error recovery method
that I've described in the past.


        D.T. Barnard and R.C. Holt;
        Hierarchic Syntax Error Repair for LR Grammars;
        International Journal of Computer and Information
        Sciences 11,4 (1982) pp.231-258.
        Also Technical Report 81-127,
        Department of Computing and Information Science,
        Queen's University
        (October 1981)
        pp.1-28.


        D.T. Barnard; <<this one's a survey of the field>>
        Syntax Error Handling Techniques;
        Technical Report 81-125,
        Department of Computing and Information Science,
        Queen's University
        (September 1981)
        pp.1-23.


        D.T. Barnard;
        Hierarchic Syntax Error Repair;
        Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science,
        University of Toronto (March 1981) pp.1-253.


        D.T. Barnard;
        Automatic Generation of Syntax-Repairing and Paragraphing Parsers;
        Technical Report CSRG-52, Computer Systems Research Group,
        University of Toronto (April 1975) pp.1-132.
        M.Sc. Thesis.


Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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