grammar : Java Glossary

grammar
Computer languages have very strict and fragile grammars. Grammars can be classified by how easy it is to mechanically analyse, that is parse, them. Analysis is usually broken into two phases, breaking the character stream into tokens calling lexing (or scanning), and analysing the relationship of the tokens, called parsing. The lexing part is quite simple, a finite state automaton that flips states when it sees certain character strings, as it processes the input a character at a time, and collects the input into tokens. The parser is a pattern matcher, that looks for legal patterns in the language. It may have to try a great many possible patterns called production rules in the process of analysing. The advantages of top down parsers include:
book cover recommend book⇒Compilers : Principles, Techniques, and Tools
by:Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman 978-0-201-10194-2paperback
 (born: 1941-08-09 age: 70) 978-0-201-10088-4hardcover
publisher:Addison Wesley
published:1986-01-01
The classic text to learn about grammars and compiler construction is The Dragon Book.
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