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From: alexander.morou@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: First vs Predict and LL(*)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 08:37:24 -0800 (PST)
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On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 7:48:02 AM UTC-6, alexand...@gmail.com wrote:
> ...The main question: what's the functional intent behind the First vs. Follow
> sets, and the goal of the project I'm writing is a recursive descent parser,
> from what's described above, is my classification of LL(*) accurate?

To Clarify: what's the functional difference between First and PREDICT sets.

Tying early in the AM is a bad idea sometimes.