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Token-by-token Syntax-directed Editing (Using an LR Parser)
✍ Scribed by ROGER G. STONE; GADA F. KADODA
- Book ID
- 102649532
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 718 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0038-0644
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✦ Synopsis
This paper demonstrates a new approach to the building of a syntax-directed editor (SDE). The approach does not force the user to adopt a top-down syntax-oriented view of editing but supports the traditional text-editing approach of deciding which token to write next. Choices are made from menus listing only the tokens that are syntactically legal at a given point. The actual menus used by the editor are created by reference to the tables used by an LALR parser-generator.