Shift / reduce conflicts in grammar of arithmetic expression with n-ary sums / products

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Published on 2010-02-18T12:39:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 11:48 UTC
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Parsing binary sums / products are easy, but I'm having troubles defining a grammar that parses

a + b * c + d + e

as

sum(a, prod(b, c), d, e)

My initial (naive) attempt generated 61 shift / reduce conflicts.

I'm using java cup (but I suppose a solution for any other parser generator would be easily translated).

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