At 3:53 PM +1100 9/15/00, Fergus Henderson wrote:
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>Doesn't that technique also solve the problem of left-recursion?
No, this cannot be detected to my knowledge. But by using pChainr and
pChainl combinators left recursion can easily be circumvented.
Resulting parsers often resemble better what one wants express than
left recursive formulations.
Doaitse
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