%{ =head1 SYNOPSIS This grammar deals with the famous ambiguous PL/I phrase: if then=if then if=then The (partial) solution uses C in the lexical analyzer to predict the token that fulfills the parser expectatives. Compile it with: eyapp -C PL_I_conflictWithLexical.eyp Run it with: ./PL_I_conflictWithLexical.pm -t -c 'if if=then then then=if' for more detail: ./PL_I_conflictWithLexical.pm -deb -t -c 'if if=then then then=if' and also ./PL_I_conflictWithLexical.pm -t -i -c 'if then=if then if=then' Also try: ./PL_I_conflictWithLexical.pm -t -c 'if then=if then if a=b then c=d' =cut %} %strict %token then = { $self->expects('then') and /\Gthen\b/gc and return ('then', 'then'); } %token if = { $self->expects('if') and /\Gif(?!\s*=)/gc and return ('if', 'if'); } %token ID = /([a-zA-Z_]\w*)/ %tree bypass %% stmt: ifstmt | assignstmt ; ifstmt: %name IF if expr then stmt ; assignstmt: %name ASSIGN id '=' expr ; expr: %name EQ id '=' id | id ; id: %name ID ID ; %%