On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Bear Giles wrote: > > In fact, my grammar currently has an obscene > > 20 shift/reduce and 4 reduce/reduce conflicts! > > A shift/reduce conflict, IIRC, usually indicates a situation where > the grammar is unambiguous but may be inefficient. Eliminating them > is nice, but not critical.
This is not correct. A shift/reduce conflict is where the grammar is ambiguous. > > A R/R conflict, in contrast, is a point where the grammar is ambiguous > and you *must* fix it. A reduce/reduce conflict is where there is more than one rule which could be used for the reduction of the grammar. Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
