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Attribute grammars and data-flow languages

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 18, Issue 6

Pages 28 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/872728.806849

Published: 01 June 1983 Publication History

Abstract

This paper examines the similarity between attribute grammars and data-flow languages. For any attribute grammar there is a data-flow program that is an evaluator for it, and we describe how to build this data-flow program. The design of semantic functions for an attribute grammar is seen to be a problem of programming in a data-flow language. Reinterpreting our experience writing attribute grammars, we suggest some techniques to use in data-flow programming and propose language features that will support them. We also propose using data-flow notation to specify the semantic functions of attribute grammars and implementing attribute evaluators in a data-flow language.

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Index Terms

Attribute grammars and data-flow languages
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Data flow languages
2. Theory of computation
  1. Formal languages and automata theory
    1. Formalisms
      1. Rewrite systems
    2. Grammars and context-free languages

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 18, Issue 6

June 1983

219 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/872728

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SIGPLAN '83: Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Programming language issues in software systems
June 1983
230 pages
ISBN:0897911083
DOI:10.1145/800226
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