Modular Attribute Grammars
Author(s) -
G. D. P. Dueck
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
the computer journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1460-2067
pISSN - 0010-4620
DOI - 10.1093/comjnl/33.2.164
Subject(s) - computer science , rule based machine translation , modular design , l attributed grammar , programming language , natural language processing , context free grammar
Attribute grammars provide a formal declarative notation fordescribing the semantics and translation of programming languages.Describing any real programming language is a significant softwareengineering challenge. From a software engineering viewpoint, currentnotations for attribute grammars have two flaws: tedious repetition ofessentially the same attribute computations is inevitable, and thevarious components of the description cannot be decomposed intomodules.…—From the Authors' Abstract
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