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Extended use of null productions in LR(1) parser applications

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Applications programmed using LR(1) parsers should be designed so that as many functions as possible are controlled by the driving parsing machine through conveniently staged reductions and associated primitive actions; in this paper this is achieved by making extensive use of null productions and nullable nonterminal symbols.

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