Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Compilation

Timestamp:

06/28/09 20:03:41 (14 months ago)

Author:

jfbillingsley (IP: 67.171.66.50)

Comment:

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Compilation

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  ''In what grammar class does D fall?''::
- I'm pretty sure it's context-free.  In the lexical phase, there is some minor lookahead needed with numeric literals to disambiguate decimal points versus slices, and the syntactic phase requires arbitrary lookahead to parse some declarations within function bodies.  Other than that, it's very simple to parse.
+ I'm pretty sure it's context-free.  In the lexical phase, there is some minor lookahead needed with numeric literals to disambiguate decimal points versus slices, and the syntactic phase requires ''theoretically'' arbitrary lookahead (but in practice, usually no more than a couple tokens) to parse some declarations within function bodies.  Other than that, it's very simple to parse.