USSA—universal syntax and semantics analyzer

  • Authors:
  • Boris Burshteyn

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

This article presents a new tool for defining syntax and semantics of formal systems, called USSA (Universal Syntax and Semantics Analyzer). USSA is based on modifiable grammars introduced in [1, 2]. While parsing or generating the source text, USSA applies context-free rules from the current set of rules and modifies this set on the fly. The USSA concepts are illustrated by a rich variety of syntax and semantic constructions from programming languages.