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From: aland@servio.slc.com (Alan Darlington)
Subject: Re: Grammar of Smalltalk
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Faisal Waris <faisal.waris@bridge.bellsouth.com> writes:
<snip> 
> My Compiler Construction book says "a necessary condition for
> a recursive-descent compiler to operate correctly is that its source
> grammar be LL(1)." (Bates, et. al.)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Faisal

The key word is "correctly"...

I once investigated recursive-descent OS command line processor which
turned out to have a LL(4) grammar.  Needless to say, it wasn't
implemented that way.  Oops...  :-)

  Cheers,
  Alan

