se******@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
Ben Sizer wrote:
se******@spawar.navy.mil wrote:
I'm a compiler newbie and was curious if Python's language/grammar
can be handled by a recursive descent parser.
I believe a recursive descent parser can handle any grammar; it just
depends on how pure you want it to be.
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Ben Sizer
Thanks! What do you mean by 'pure'?
By 'pure' I mean entirely recursive and not iterative. Implementation
becomes easier if you're not writing a purely recursive parsing
program, and it makes it more practical to implement an arbitrary
amount of 'read-ahead'.
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Ben Sizer