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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by bluGill on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:56PM (#37850143)
Humans can normally treat C as if it is LR and get away with it, except for a few places that they can often recognize and avoid. It is a bad shortcut, but still one that you can get by with taking in a lot of code.
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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by _a_a_a_ on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:05PM (#37850243)
Everywhere but typedef can be made LR(1) IIRC
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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by jonsen on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:31AM (#37854773)
Sure, but "get away with" is not something to strive for in a programming language. I've allways hated C for the unnecessary brainpower it sometimes takes to parse a construct.
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