Syntactic definition mechanisms

  • Authors:

  • Teun van Gils

  • Affiliations:

  • Philips-Electrologica N.V.

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the international symposium on Extensible languages
  • Year:
  • 1971

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Abstract

The structure of a good syntax is derived from the requirement to understand and therefore to analyse a language easily. Every language possesses an abstract, representation-independent syntax. From this the operator precedence method and other complementary or alternative methods of analysis are deduced. It is possible to construct syntactic definition mechanisms by means of which for any abstract syntax different concrete languages can be defined, which are concise, surveyable, unambiguous and easily analysable. Incorporated in a programming language these syntactic definition mechanisms make that language syntactic extensible.