How to build LR parsers which accept incomplete input

1 April 1990

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Vol. 25 (4) , 51-58
https://doi.org/10.1145/987481.987485

Abstract

In this short note, we describe a modification to LR parsers which allows processing of incomplete input, while at the same time building of correct abstract syntax trees. This feature is very useful for language-based editors.

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