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Re: question
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David Ja |
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Re: question |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:46:20 -0400 |
Hi,
I see now. Thank you guys all very much. You have been extremely helpful.
I'll tried it some more. Thanks again.
Best,
David
On 8/15/05, Sylvain Schmitz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> David Ja wrote:
> > All I wanted to do was to
> > take advantage of bison's parser which generates the DFA, which in turn,
> > allows me to step through the DFA in sequence generating a sample string
> > that fits the grammar input.
>
> Are you clear with the fact that the DFA generated by bison is not a DFA
> for the language generated by the grammar, but a handle-finding
> automaton, finding valid prefixes of right sentential forms? If
> generating terminal sentences for a given grammar is really what you are
> looking for, then you might find it easier to generate it directly from
> the grammar.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sylvain
>