sle2012/paper13

SLE 2012 paper:
Layout-Sensitive Generalized Parsing

Sebastian Erdweg, Tillmann Rendel, Christian Kästner, Klaus Ostermann

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36089-3_14
• T4A: Workbenches
  • The paper’s main result is a generalised parsing technique/tooling that handles layout-sensitive syntax systematically.
• T1D: Composition
  • Layout sensitivity is treated in a way that supports combining grammars and languages without losing compositionality.
• T3A: Meta-languages
  • The work extends grammar-based specification techniques for defining syntaxes that include layout constraints.

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