Problems with the Ada reference grammar

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Problems with the Ada reference grammar

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 16 , Issue 9 (September 1981) table of contents

Pages: 90 - 104

Year of Publication: 1981

ISSN:0362-1340

Author

C. S. Wetherell

Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The Ada grammar published in the Reference Manual is not suitable as it stands for use with a parser generation system. The changes necessary to make it suitable and some discussion of grammar design principles are presented here. The revised grammar appears in an appendix.

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	1	Henry Ledgard, Reference Manual for the ADA Programming Language, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 1983
	2	[2] McKenney, Paul E., and Keith R. Spitz. Letter to the editor, SIGPLAN Notices, 15, 12, pp. 6-7. December, 1980.
	3	G. Persch , G. Winterstein , S. Drossopoulou , M. Dausmann, An LALR (1) grammar for (revised) Ada, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.16 n.3, p.85-98, March 1981 [doi>10.1145/947825.947832]
	4	[4] Wetherell, Charles, and Alfred Shannon. "LR: Automatic Parser Generator and LR(1) Parser", Lawrence Livermore Laboratory UCRL-82926. 1979. To appear in IEEE Trans. Soft. Eng.

CITED BY 3

	T. P. Baker, A single-pass syntax-directed front end for Ada, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.17 n.6, p.318-326, June 1982
	Philip Machanick, A note on C. S. Wetherell's "Problems with the Ada reference grammar", ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.18 n.5, p.44-45, May 1983
	Peter van der Linden, Ambiguity and orthogonality in Ada, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.17 n.3, p.93-94, March 1982

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Keywords:
LR(1) parsing, automatic parser generation, compiler construction, language design, programming languages

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