D grammar as LL(1) grammar ( OT)

Jascha Wetzel firstname at mainia.de
Tue Sep 18 11:57:22 PDT 2007


Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Jascha Wetzel wrote
> 
>> that grammar successfully parses tango, 
>> phobos, derelict, blade, dfl, core32 and more.
> 
> This indicates only that your parsing system might accept a super set 
> of the D language.
> 
> From looking at the grammar I conclude that your parsing system might 
> accept sources that are not accepted by DMD.

definitely. the grammar in the docs is a lot more general than the DMD 
parser. i'm narrowing it down more and more. also, i'm going chase the 
parser through DStress, which also includes negative test cases.

> BTW do you have some papers on the "tdfa" you use?

http://laurikari.net/ville/spire2000-tnfa.pdf



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