SLE 2017 paper:
Deep Priority Conflicts in the Wild: A Pilot Study

Luís Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Michael J. Steindorfer, Eelco Visser

DOI: 10.1145/3136014.3136020
T5E: Empirical Evaluation
- It is a pilot study of deep priority conflicts found in real-world grammars.
T5B: Language Description Analysis
- The subject matter is analysis of grammar specifications to identify and characterise conflicts.
T2B: Evolution
- Such conflicts motivate grammar refactoring and long-term maintenance of language definitions.
T3A: Meta-languages
- The analysed artifacts are context-free grammars, i.e., meta-language descriptions of syntax.

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