Chapter 25. Embedded Translation
Embed output production code into the parser, so that the output is produced gradually as the parse runs.
In Syntax-Directed Translation, a pure parser merely creates an internal parse tree, so you need to do more to populate a Semantic Model.
Embedded Translation populates the Semantic Model by embedding code into the parser that populates the Semantic Model at appropriate points in the parse.
25.1 How It Works
Syntactic analyzers are all about recognizing syntactic structures. Using Embedded Translation, we place code to populate a Semantic Model into the parser, so that we gradually populate the Semantic ...
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