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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jul 3, 2012 15:46 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) by HelloWorld
Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Yes, it could be made to work, but it would have to be a backtracking parser, and it would probably be slow. Most bottom-up parsers (such as those produced by bison) are LALR(1), which only has one token look-ahead.


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