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Re: looking for yacc specification of Java

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Sep 20 14:54:01 1995

From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: daemon@java.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marshall)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:56:51 -0800 (PDT)
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <9509201100.AA00269@blacksmith!juggler> from "Eric Marshall" at Sep 20, 95 06:59:59 am


Hi Eric,

> 
> 	The grammar contained in Appendix B of the Java Language Specification
> isn't very LALR friendly, and I'm wondering if someone has already gone to the
> trouble of cleaning it up, with respect to yacc.
> 
> 	Also, I found two errors in the grammar: neither the VOID nor the FOR
> reserved words are used in any productions. Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse,
> but I'm a newbie here :-)

Guy Steele is working on a new Language Spec. It will contain an LALR grammar
for Java.

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff (avh@eng.sun.com)
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