Bracketed context-free languages

  • Authors:
  • Seymour Ginsburg;Michael A. Harrison

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

A bracketed grammar is a context-free grammar in which indexed brackets are inserted around the right-hand sides of the rules. The language generated by a bracketed grammar is a bracketed language. An algebraic condition is given for one bracketed language to be a subset of another. The intersection and the difference of two bracketed languages with the same brackets and terminals are context-free (although not necessarily bracketed) languages. Whether L(G"1)@?L(G"2) and whether L(G"1)@?L(G"2) is empty are solvable problems for arbitrary bracketed grammars G"1 and G"2 with the same brackets and same terminals. Finally, bracketed languages are shown to be codes with strong properties.