Carl Banks imbosol at vt.edu
Tue Jul 30 15:25:15 EDT 2002

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Fran?ois Pinard wrote:
> [Kristian Ovaska]
> 
>> The language category you're dealing with is called context-free grammars.
>> It's more expressive than regular languages, and it can parse any
>> programming language.
> 
> Any? :-)
> 
> I would not go that far.  There are strange beasts out there.

Like, for example, C.  Expressions can parse differently depending on
whether a symbol has been typedefed or not.


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