[TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's couch

Bakul Shah bakul at iitbombay.org
Mon Jul 5 13:41:45 AEST 2021


> On Jul 4, 2021, at 4:40 PM, George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
> 
> I wasn't very good at making jokes at the best of times, but I thought
> the innate tabular nature of a yacc parser and the role of yyparse()
> and the syntax yacc is written in would have got us there. 

The difference is that one can incorporate a precedence parser for expressions
in a recursive parser easily, without needing yacc by handcrafting the table. 

-- Bakul




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