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|    Hans-Peter Diettrich to Barry Kelly    |
|    Re: Delphi formal grammar?    |
|    20 Aug 06 23:51:44    |
      From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com              Barry Kelly wrote:              > Yes, you can't (easily) parse ConstExprs using LL(1) without type       > information. Specifically, structured constants are somewhat awkward       > to distinguish from parenthesized expressions:       >       > var       > x: Integer = (Foo + Bar);       > y: TRecord = (Foo : Bar);       > z: TArray = (Foo , Bar);              Good example of the difficulties. Nontheless all these can be summarized       as Initializers, with optional elements or repetitions, as indicated by       the ":" or ",". If required, a finer distinction between the various       initializers can be made when processing the parse trees.              In contrast to C, I never found symbol table information required for       properly parsing OPL sources. More problems arise from the semicolons,       introduced by unreflected extensions of the Pascal grammar :-(              DoDi              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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