Re: How detect cycle in grammar ?

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: How detect cycle in grammar ?
Date	2011-11-22 15:20 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID	<11-11-046@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References	<11-11-041@comp.compilers> <11-11-045@comp.compilers>

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Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> writes:
>Nonterminals that can never derive a terminal string are the
>problem.

Is it really?  Since they cannot derive a terminal, they have no
influence on the language described by the grammar.  They might just
as well not be there.  Are they really a problem (except for certain
implementation techniques)?

- anton
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M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/

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How detect cycle in grammar ? Borneq <a.moderacja@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 08:48 -0800
  Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2011-11-21 18:14 +0100
  Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-11-21 10:20 -0800
    Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-22 15:20 +0000
      Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Quinn Tyler Jackson <quinn_jackson2004@yahoo.ca> - 2011-11-25 22:28 -0800
      Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 10:18 -0800
    Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Borneq <a.moderacja@gmail.com> - 2011-11-23 12:56 -0800
    Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Borneq <a.moderacja@gmail.com> - 2011-11-24 09:24 -0800
      Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 10:27 -0800
        Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-28 16:46 +0000
          Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-11-29 07:31 +0000
            Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Paul B Mann <paul@paulbmann.com> - 2011-12-01 02:46 -0800
              Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Quinn Tyler Jackson <quinn_jackson2004@yahoo.ca> - 2011-12-02 09:20 -0800
          Re: How detect cycle in grammar ? Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 06:29 -0800

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