3.7. Completing a Parser
The class RobotRefactored is the result of a translation from the track robot command language grammar into code. It is complete in that it provides a parser that recognizes the desired language. This parser is not complete, however, in the sense of doing anything useful. To go beyond recognition of a language to taking some useful action based on the recognition, a parser must control the pushing of terminals onto an assembly's stack, and it must plug assemblers in to the appropriate subparsers.
3.7.1. Control Pushing
By default, all terminals push whatever they recognize onto an assembly's stack. For most terminals, this is a useful and often necessary function. For example, when a parser recognizes a Word or a Num ...
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