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Extended use of null productions in LR(1) parser applications

By Gerard D. Finn
Communications of the ACM, September 1985, Vol. 28 No. 9, Pages 961-972
10.1145/4284.4289
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Applications programmed using LR(1) parsers should be designed so that as many functions as possible are controlled by the driving parsing machine through conveniently staged reductions and associated primitive actions; in this paper this is achieved by making extensive use of null productions and nullable nonterminal symbols.

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