This tutorial describes the JavaCC token manager. It covers lexical states, lexical actions, and the use of SPECIAL_TOKENs. All regular expressions that occur as expansion units in the grammar are ...

The job of a parser is to read an input stream and determine whether or not the input stream conforms to the grammar. This determination in its most general form can be quite time consuming. 1 There ...

A student-friendly, course-friendly guide to compiler theory, applications, and programming technology Compiler construction is a tricky subject, involving theory, the application of that theory, and ...

Abstract: The Java Compiler Compiler is a tool for developing applications using Java. JavaCC is freely available and generates Java source code. Language processors that the tool generates thus ...