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Rapport (Rapport De Recherche) Année : 1994

Dynamic grammars and semantic analysis

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We define a dynamic grammar as a device which may generate an unbounded set of context-free grammars, each grammar is produced, while parsing a source text, by the recognition of some construct. It is shown that dynamic grammars have the formal power of Turing machines. For a given source text, a dynamic grammar, when non ambiguous, may be seen as a sequence of usual context-free grammars specialized by this source text: an initial grammar is modified, little by little, while the program is parsed and is used to continue the parsing process. An experimental system which implements a non ambiguous \sl dynamic parser is sketched and applications of this system for the resolution of some semantic analysis problems are shown. Some of these examples are non-trivial (overloading resolution, derived types, polymorphism, \ldots) and indicate that this method may partly compete with other well-known techniques used in type-checking.
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inria-00074352 , version 1 (24-05-2006)

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Pierre Boullier. Dynamic grammars and semantic analysis. [Research Report] RR-2322, INRIA. 1994. ⟨inria-00074352⟩
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