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Yacc with multiple entry points.

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There is a lot of saving and code-reuse possible if multiple entry points are allowed in a parser generator. This can be done by a simple extension of the LR process, but does complicate the issue of end-markers a little.

You'll see brief mention of it, by the way, here on page 199 of the Lex and Yacc reference. https://books.google.com/books?id=vsHcnR4kXIAC&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199 authored by (... searching author page ...) Oh! The moderator, John!

[I put the same trick on pp 163-164 of flex&bison.  Fiddle the lexer
so it sends the parser a fake token when it starts and use initial
rules with the fake token to select the real entry point.  That works
in plain yacc or bison.  -John]

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