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To be more precise, "a context-free parser has to receive a TYPE-NAME token...". A hand-coded parser would be able to parse things just fine if both XX and yy w
by boris 15y ago
To be more precise, "a context-free parser has to receive a TYPE-NAME token...". A hand-coded parser would be able to parse things just fine if both XX and yy were IDENTIFIERs.
Or, to put it another way, you resort to uglyfying the lexer to overcome definiciencies in the parser.