Introduction to Compiler Construction in a Java World

Appendix C

Java Syntax

C.1 Introduction

This appendix describes the lexical and syntactic grammars

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for the Java programming

language; the former specifies how individual tokens in the language are composed, and the

latter specifies how language constructs are formed. The grammars are based on the second

edition of the Java Language Specification.

C.2 Syntax

We employ the following notation to describe the lexical and syntactic grammars, similar

to what we used in Appendix B to specify j-- syntax.

• // indicates comments;

• Non-terminals are written in the form of Java (mixed-case) identifiers;

• Terminals are written in bold;

• Token representations are enclosed ...