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

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]

Given this:
>
   x + y = z;
   (x + y) = z;
>
My compiler produces the same AST for the LHS of '=' in both cases.

[...]

If that's the case (and I don't doubt that it is), then your compiler is
not following the grammar specified by the ISO C standard.  Since
`x + y` is not a unary-expression, `x + y = z` is not a syntactically
valid assignment expression.

A parser that strictly follows the ISO C grammar would reject
(diagnose, flag, whatever) `x + y = z;` just as it would reject `x = y +;`.

This is an observation, not a complaint.  It doesn't imply that your
compiler is non-conforming or buggy.  A parser that doesn't strictly
follow the ISO C grammar could still be part of a conforming compiler.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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