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Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999

Filed:

Oct. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:

Sriram Sankar, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395702 ;
Abstract

A description language and a parser generator for top-down parsers allows grammars for top-down parsers to be defined using a sequence of productions written as extended BNF expressions. For productions that are ambiguous, a lookahead construct in the grammar allows the programmer to specify an increased number of lookahead tokens. The lookahead construct can be specified on an expansion-by-expansion basis. As a result, the generated parser only maintains an increased number of lookahead tokens when required to process ambiguous productions.


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Sankar, Sriram. (1999). Variable lookahead parser generator (U.S. Patent No. 5903756). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5903756

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