.NET Design Patterns

The parser module

By using recursive descent parsing, we will arrange the tokens to see whether expressions are valid, and generate the AST out of the input stream with the help of the lexical analyzer.

A recursive descent parser is a top-down parser built from a set of mutually-recursive procedures, where each such procedure usually implements one of the production rules of the grammar. Thus, the structure of the resulting program closely mirrors the grammar that it recognizes:

    public class RDParser : Lexer 
    { 
      TOKEN Current_Token; 
      public RDParser(String str): base(str){} 
 
      public Exp CallExpr() 
      { 
        Current_Token = GetToken(); 
        return Expr(); 
      } 

The constructor of the RDParser class takes the expression string as a parameter, and passes it to the Lexer ...