Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On 8/31/24 03:08, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

On 2024-08-30, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

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However, the compilers I've tried produce the same diagnostic (not a
syntax error message) for both. Probably they use a tweaked grammar
that allows more a general expression as the LHS of an assignment,
and catch errors later in semantic analysis, for the purpose of
producing diagnostics that are easier to understand. It's obvious
that in `x + 1 = y`, the programmer (probably) intended `x + 1`
to be the LHS of an assignment. These compilers (I tried gcc,
clang, and tcc) are clever enough to recognize that.

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A standard operator precedence parsing algorithm such as Shunting Yard
cannot help but parse that.

True, which is an example of why a precedence parsing algorithm is
inappropriate for parsing C, which is not defined in terms of precedence
levels.