Re: Is there an error correcting parser generator out there?

johnm@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
>... Go read Terrance Parr et al's papers about predicated-LL(k) parsing.
>It's implemented and used by a good number of people in the ANTLR parser
>generator that's part of the PCCTS. The use of syntactic and semantic
>predicates opens up the use of LL(k) parsing to a vastly larger world.
>Basically, syntactic predicates 'solve' the infinite lookahead problem and
>semantic predicates allows context dependent decisions to direct the parse.


One question... _Which_ ``infinite lookahead'' problem??


(You aren't by any chance speaking of C++ are you?)
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