"""I wanted to try to use the code in `parser.py` to do real work, and as you might expect the code did NOT work acceptibly. This version has some performance work done. It also supports precedence. 2023 """ import collections import dataclasses import enum import functools import typing ############################################################################### # LR0 # # We start with LR0 parsers, because they form the basis of everything else. ############################################################################### class Configuration: """A rule being tracked in a state. (Note: technically, lookahead isn't used until we get to LR(1) parsers, but if left at its default it's harmless. Ignore it until you get to the part about LR(1).) """ __slots__ = ( 'name', 'symbols', 'position', 'lookahead', 'next', 'at_end', '_vals', '_hash', ) name: int symbols: typing.Tuple[int, ...] position: int lookahead: typing.Tuple[int, ...] next: int | None at_end: bool _vals: typing.Tuple _hash: int def __init__(self, name, symbols, position, lookahead) -> None: self.name = name self.symbols = symbols self.position = position self.lookahead = lookahead at_end = position == len(symbols) self.at_end = at_end self.next = symbols[position] if not at_end else None self._vals = (name, symbols, position, lookahead) self._hash = hash(self._vals) @classmethod def from_rule(cls, name: int, symbols: typing.Tuple[int, ...], lookahead=()): return Configuration( name=name, symbols=symbols, position=0, lookahead=lookahead, ) def __hash__(self) -> int: return self._hash def __eq__(self, value: object, /) -> bool: if value is self: return True if not isinstance(value, Configuration): return NotImplemented return ( value._hash == self._hash and value.name == self.name and value.position == self.position and value.symbols == self.symbols and value.lookahead == self.lookahead ) def __lt__(self, value) -> bool: if not isinstance(value, Configuration): return NotImplemented return self._vals < value._vals def __gt__(self, value) -> bool: if not isinstance(value, Configuration): return NotImplemented return self._vals > value._vals def __le__(self, value) -> bool: if not isinstance(value, Configuration): return NotImplemented return self._vals <= value._vals def __ge__(self, value) -> bool: if not isinstance(value, Configuration): return NotImplemented return self._vals >= value._vals def replace_position(self, new_position): return Configuration( name=self.name, symbols=self.symbols, position=new_position, lookahead=self.lookahead, ) def clear_lookahead(self): return Configuration( name=self.name, symbols=self.symbols, position=self.position, lookahead=(), ) @property def rest(self): return self.symbols[(self.position+1):] def format(self, alphabet: list[str]) -> str: la = ", " + str(tuple(alphabet[i] for i in self.lookahead)) if self.lookahead != () else "" return "{name} -> {bits}{lookahead}".format( name=alphabet[self.name], bits=' '.join([ '* ' + alphabet[sym] if i == self.position else alphabet[sym] for i, sym in enumerate(self.symbols) ]) + (' *' if self.at_end else ''), lookahead=la, ) ConfigSet = typing.Tuple[Configuration, ...] class ConfigurationSetInfo: """When we build a grammar into a table, the first thing we need to do is generate all the configuration sets and their successors. This is the structure that tracks the result of that computation. (Different generators vary in the details of how they generate this structure, but they all compute this information.) """ config_set_key: dict[ConfigSet, int] sets: list[ConfigSet] successors: list[dict[int, int]] def __init__(self): self.config_set_key = {} self.sets = [] self.successors = [] def register_config_set(self, c: ConfigSet) -> typing.Tuple[int, bool]: """Potentially add a new config set to the set of sets. Returns the canonical ID of the set within this structure, along with a boolean indicating whether the set was just added or not. (You can use this integer to get the set back, if you need it, and also access the successors table.) """ existing = self.config_set_key.get(c) if existing is not None: return existing, False index = len(self.sets) self.sets.append(c) self.successors.append({}) self.config_set_key[c] = index return index, True def add_successor(self, c_id: int, symbol: int, successor: int): """Register sucessor(`c_id`, `symbol`) -> `successor` """ self.successors[c_id][symbol] = successor def find_path_to_set(self, target_set: ConfigSet) -> list[int]: target_index = self.config_set_key[target_set] visited = set() queue = collections.deque() queue.appendleft((0, [])) while len(queue) > 0: set_index, path = queue.pop() if set_index == target_index: return path if set_index in visited: continue visited.add(set_index) for symbol, successor in self.successors[set_index].items(): queue.appendleft((successor, path + [symbol])) raise KeyError("Unable to find a path to the target set!") class Assoc(enum.Enum): """Associativity of a rule.""" NONE = 0 LEFT = 1 RIGHT = 2 class ErrorCollection: errors: dict[ConfigSet, dict[int, dict[Configuration, typing.Tuple]]] def __init__(self): self.errors = {} def any(self) -> bool: return len(self.errors) > 0 def add_error(self, config_set: ConfigSet, symbol: int, config: Configuration, action: typing.Tuple): set_errors = self.errors.get(config_set) if set_errors is None: set_errors = {} self.errors[config_set] = set_errors symbol_errors = set_errors.get(symbol) if symbol_errors is None: symbol_errors = {} set_errors[symbol] = symbol_errors symbol_errors[config] = action def format( self, alphabet: list[str], all_sets: ConfigurationSetInfo, ) -> str | None: if len(self.errors) is None: return None errors = [] for config_set, set_errors in self.errors.items(): path = all_sets.find_path_to_set(config_set) path_str = " ".join(alphabet[s] for s in path) for symbol, symbol_errors in set_errors.items(): lines = [] lines.append(f"When we have parsed '{path_str}' and see '{alphabet[symbol]}' we don't know whether:") for config, action in symbol_errors.items(): name = alphabet[config.name] rule = " ".join(f"{'* ' if config.position == i else ''}{alphabet[s]}" for i,s in enumerate(config.symbols)) if config.next is None: rule += " *" if action[0] == 'reduce': action_str = f"pop {action[2]} values off the stack and make a {action[1]}" elif action[0] == 'shift': action_str = "consume the token and keep going" elif action[0] == 'accept': action_str = "accept the parse" else: assert action[0] == "goto", f"Unknown action {action[0]}" raise Exception("Shouldn't conflict on goto ever") lines.append(f" - We are in the rule `{name}: {rule}` and we should {action_str}") errors.append("\n".join(lines)) return "\n\n".join(errors) class TableBuilder(object): errors: ErrorCollection table: list[dict[str, typing.Tuple]] alphabet: list[str] precedence: typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[Assoc, int], ...] row: None | list[typing.Tuple[None | typing.Tuple, None | Configuration]] def __init__(self, alphabet: list[str], precedence: typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[Assoc, int], ...]): self.errors = ErrorCollection() self.table = [] self.alphabet = alphabet self.precedence = precedence self.row = None def flush(self, all_sets: ConfigurationSetInfo): self._flush_row() if self.errors.any(): errors = self.errors.format(self.alphabet, all_sets) raise ValueError(f"Errors building the table:\n\n{errors}") return self.table def new_row(self, config_set: ConfigSet): self._flush_row() self.row = [(None, None) for _ in self.alphabet] self.current_config_set = config_set def _flush_row(self): if self.row: actions = { self.alphabet[k]: v[0] for k, v in enumerate(self.row) if v[0] is not None } self.table.append(actions) def set_table_reduce(self, symbol: int, config): action = ('reduce', self.alphabet[config.name], len(config.symbols)) self._set_table_action(symbol, action, config) def set_table_accept(self, symbol: int, config: Configuration): action = ('accept',) self._set_table_action(symbol, action, config) def set_table_shift(self, symbol: int, index: int, config: Configuration): action = ('shift', index) self._set_table_action(symbol, action, config) def set_table_goto(self, symbol: int, index: int): action = ('goto', index) self._set_table_action(symbol, action, None) def _action_precedence(self, symbol, action, config): if action[0] == 'shift': return self.precedence[symbol] else: return self.precedence[config.name] def _set_table_action(self, symbol_id: int, action, config: Configuration|None): """Set the action for 'symbol' in the table row to 'action'. This is destructive; it changes the table. It raises an error if there is already an action for the symbol in the row. """ assert isinstance(symbol_id, int) assert self.row is not None existing, existing_config = self.row[symbol_id] if existing is not None and existing != action: assert existing_config is not None assert config is not None existing_assoc, existing_prec = self._action_precedence( symbol_id, existing, existing_config) new_assoc, new_prec = self._action_precedence( symbol_id, action, config) if existing_prec > new_prec: # Precedence of the action in the table already wins, do nothing. return elif existing_prec == new_prec: # It's an actual conflict, use associativity if we can. # If there's a conflict in associativity then it's a real conflict! assoc = Assoc.NONE if existing_assoc == Assoc.NONE: assoc = new_assoc elif new_assoc == Assoc.NONE: assoc = existing_assoc elif new_assoc == existing_assoc: assoc = new_assoc resolved = False if assoc == Assoc.LEFT: # Prefer reduce over shift if action[0] == 'shift' and existing[0] == 'reduce': action = existing resolved = True elif action[0] == 'reduce' and existing[0] == 'shift': resolved = True elif assoc == Assoc.RIGHT: # Prefer shift over reduce if action[0] == 'shift' and existing[0] == 'reduce': resolved = True elif action[0] == 'reduce' and existing[0] == 'shift': action = existing resolved = True if not resolved: # Record the conflicts. self.errors.add_error(self.current_config_set, symbol_id, existing_config, existing) self.errors.add_error(self.current_config_set, symbol_id, config, action) else: # Precedence of the new action is greater than the existing # action, just allow the overwrite with no change. pass self.row[symbol_id] = (action, config) class GenerateLR0(object): """Generate parser tables for an LR0 parser. The input grammars are of the form: grammar_simple = [ ('E', ['E', '+', 'T']), ('E', ['T']), ('T', ['(', 'E', ')']), ('T', ['id']), ] Which is to say, they are a list of productions. Each production is a tuple where the first element of the tuple is the name of the non-terminal being added, and the second elment of the tuple is the list of terminals and non-terminals that make up the production. There is currently no support for custom actions or alternation or anything like that. If you want alternations that you'll have to lower the grammar by hand into the simpler form first. Don't name anything with double-underscores; those are reserved for the generator. Don't add '$' either, as it is reserved to mean end-of-stream. Use an empty list to indicate nullability, that is: ('O', []), means that O can be matched with nothing. """ alphabet: list[str] grammar: list[list[typing.Tuple[int, ...]]] nonterminal: typing.Tuple[bool, ...] terminal: typing.Tuple[bool, ...] precedence: typing.Tuple[typing.Tuple[Assoc, int], ...] symbol_key: dict[str, int] start_symbol: int end_symbol: int config_sets_key: dict[ConfigSet, int] successors: list[set[int]] def __init__( self, start: str, grammar: list[typing.Tuple[str, list[str]]], precedence: None | dict[str, typing.Tuple[Assoc, int]] = None, ): """Initialize the parser generator with the specified grammar and start symbol. """ # Work out the alphabet. alphabet = set() for name, rule in grammar: alphabet.add(name) alphabet.update(symbol for symbol in rule) # Check to make sure they didn't use anything that will give us # heartburn later. reserved = [a for a in alphabet if a.startswith('__') or a == '$'] if reserved: raise ValueError( "Can't use {symbols} in grammars, {what} reserved.".format( symbols=' or '.join(reserved), what="it's" if len(reserved) == 1 else "they're", ) ) alphabet.add('__start') alphabet.add('$') self.alphabet = list(sorted(alphabet)) symbol_key = { symbol: index for index, symbol in enumerate(self.alphabet) } start_symbol = symbol_key['__start'] end_symbol = symbol_key['$'] assert self.alphabet[start_symbol] == '__start' assert self.alphabet[end_symbol] == '$' # Turn the incoming grammar into a dictionary, indexed by nonterminal. # # We count on python dictionaries retaining the insertion order, like # it or not. full_grammar = [list() for _ in self.alphabet] terminal = [True for _ in self.alphabet] assert terminal[end_symbol] nonterminal = [False for _ in self.alphabet] for name, rule in grammar: name_symbol = symbol_key[name] terminal[name_symbol] = False nonterminal[name_symbol] = True rules = full_grammar[name_symbol] rules.append(tuple(symbol_key[symbol] for symbol in rule)) self.grammar = full_grammar self.grammar[start_symbol].append((symbol_key[start],)) terminal[start_symbol] = False nonterminal[start_symbol] = True self.terminal = tuple(terminal) self.nonterminal = tuple(nonterminal) assert self.terminal[end_symbol] assert self.nonterminal[start_symbol] if precedence is None: precedence = {} self.precedence = tuple(precedence.get(a, (Assoc.NONE, 0)) for a in self.alphabet) self.symbol_key = symbol_key self.start_symbol = start_symbol self.end_symbol = end_symbol @functools.cache def gen_closure_next(self, config: Configuration): """Return the next set of configurations in the closure for config. If the position for config is just before a non-terminal, then the next set of configurations is configurations for all of the productions for that non-terminal, with the position at the beginning. (If the position for config is just before a terminal, or at the end of the production, then the next set is empty.) """ next = config.next if next is None: return () else: return tuple( Configuration.from_rule(next, rule) for rule in self.grammar[next] ) def gen_closure(self, seeds: typing.Iterable[Configuration]) -> ConfigSet: """Compute the closure for the specified configs. The closure is all of the configurations we could be in. Specifically, if the position for a config is just before a non-terminal then we must also consider configurations where the rule is the rule for the non-terminal and the position is just before the beginning of the rule. (We have replaced a recursive version with an iterative one.) """ closure = set() pending = list(seeds) pending_next = [] while len(pending) > 0: for config in pending: if config in closure: continue closure.add(config) for next_config in self.gen_closure_next(config): pending_next.append(next_config) temp = pending pending = pending_next pending_next = temp pending_next.clear() return tuple(sorted(closure)) # TODO: Why tuple? def gen_successor(self, config_set: typing.Iterable[Configuration], symbol: int) -> ConfigSet: """Compute the successor state for the given config set and the given symbol. The successor represents the next state of the parser after seeing the symbol. """ seeds = tuple( config.replace_position(config.position + 1) for config in config_set if config.next == symbol ) closure = self.gen_closure(seeds) return closure def gen_all_successors(self, config_set: typing.Iterable[Configuration]) -> list[typing.Tuple[int, ConfigSet]]: """Return all of the non-empty successors for the given config set.""" possible = tuple(sorted({ config.next for config in config_set if config.next is not None })) next = [] for symbol in possible: successor = self.gen_successor(config_set, symbol) if len(successor) > 0: next.append((symbol, successor)) return next def gen_sets(self, config_set: typing.Tuple[Configuration,...]) -> ConfigurationSetInfo: """Generate all configuration sets starting from the provided set.""" result = ConfigurationSetInfo() successors = [] pending = [config_set] pending_next = [] while len(pending) > 0: for config_set in pending: id, is_new = result.register_config_set(config_set) if is_new: for symbol, successor in self.gen_all_successors(config_set): successors.append((id,symbol,successor)) pending_next.append(successor) temp = pending pending = pending_next pending_next = temp pending_next.clear() for id,symbol,successor in successors: result.add_successor(id, symbol, result.config_set_key[successor]) return result def gen_all_sets(self) -> ConfigurationSetInfo: """Generate all of the configuration sets for the grammar.""" seeds = tuple( Configuration.from_rule(self.start_symbol, rule) for rule in self.grammar[self.start_symbol] ) initial_set = self.gen_closure(seeds) return self.gen_sets(initial_set) def gen_reduce_set(self, config: Configuration) -> typing.Iterable[int]: """Return the set of symbols that indicate we should reduce the given configuration. In an LR0 parser, this is just the set of all terminals.""" del(config) return [index for index, value in enumerate(self.terminal) if value] def gen_table(self): """Generate the parse table. The parse table is a list of states. The first state in the list is the starting state. Each state is a dictionary that maps a symbol to an action. Each action is a tuple. The first element of the tuple is a string describing what to do: - 'shift': The second element of the tuple is the state number. Consume the input and push that state onto the stack. - 'reduce': The second element is the name of the non-terminal being reduced, and the third element is the number of states to remove from the stack. Don't consume the input; just remove the specified number of things from the stack, and then consult the table again, this time using the new top-of-stack as the current state and the name of the non-terminal to find out what to do. - 'goto': The second element is the state number to push onto the stack. In the literature, these entries are treated distinctly from the actions, but we mix them here because they never overlap with the other actions. (These are always associated with non-terminals, and the other actions are always associated with terminals.) - 'accept': Accept the result of the parse, it worked. Anything missing from the row indicates an error. """ config_sets = self.gen_all_sets() builder = TableBuilder(self.alphabet, self.precedence) for config_set_id, config_set in enumerate(config_sets.sets): builder.new_row(config_set) successors = config_sets.successors[config_set_id] for config in config_set: config_next = config.next if config_next is None: if config.name != self.start_symbol: for a in self.gen_reduce_set(config): builder.set_table_reduce(a, config) else: builder.set_table_accept(self.end_symbol, config) elif self.terminal[config_next]: index = successors[config_next] builder.set_table_shift(config_next, index, config) # Gotos for symbol, index in successors.items(): if self.nonterminal[symbol]: builder.set_table_goto(symbol, index) return builder.flush(config_sets) def parse(table, input, trace=False): """Parse the input with the generated parsing table and return the concrete syntax tree. The parsing table can be generated by GenerateLR0.gen_table() or by any of the other generators below. The parsing mechanism never changes, only the table generation mechanism. input is a list of tokens. Don't stick an end-of-stream marker, I'll stick one on for you. """ assert '$' not in input input = input + ['$'] input_index = 0 # Our stack is a stack of tuples, where the first entry is the state number # and the second entry is the 'value' that was generated when the state was # pushed. stack : list[typing.Tuple[int, typing.Any]] = [(0, None)] while True: current_state = stack[-1][0] current_token = input[input_index] action = table[current_state].get(current_token, ('error',)) if trace: print("{stack: <20} {input: <50} {action: <5}".format( stack=repr([s[0] for s in stack]), input=repr(input[input_index:]), action=repr(action) )) if action[0] == 'accept': return stack[-1][1] elif action[0] == 'reduce': name = action[1] size = action[2] value = (name, tuple(s[1] for s in stack[-size:])) stack = stack[:-size] goto = table[stack[-1][0]].get(name, ('error',)) assert goto[0] == 'goto' # Corrupt table? stack.append((goto[1], value)) elif action[0] == 'shift': stack.append((action[1], (current_token, ()))) input_index += 1 elif action[0] == 'error': raise ValueError( 'Syntax error: unexpected symbol {sym}'.format( sym=current_token, ), ) ############################################################################### # SLR(1) ############################################################################### def add_changed(items: set[int], item: int)->bool: old_len = len(items) items.add(item) return old_len != len(items) def update_changed(items: set[int], other: set[int]) -> bool: old_len = len(items) items.update(other) return old_len != len(items) @dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True) class FirstInfo: firsts: list[set[int]] is_epsilon: list[bool] @classmethod def from_grammar( cls, grammar: list[list[typing.Tuple[int,...]]], terminal: typing.Tuple[bool, ...], ): # Add all terminals to their own firsts firsts = [] for index, is_terminal in enumerate(terminal): firsts.append(set()) if is_terminal: firsts[index].add(index) epsilons = [False for _ in terminal] changed = True while changed: changed = False for name, rules in enumerate(grammar): f = firsts[name] for rule in rules: if len(rule) == 0: changed = changed or not epsilons[name] epsilons[name] = True continue for index, symbol in enumerate(rule): other_firsts = firsts[symbol] changed = update_changed(f, other_firsts) or changed is_last = index == len(rule) - 1 if is_last and epsilons[symbol]: # If this is the last symbol and the last # symbol can be empty then I can be empty # too! :P changed = changed or not epsilons[name] epsilons[name] = True if not epsilons[symbol]: # If we believe that there is at least one # terminal in the first set of this # nonterminal then I don't have to keep # looping through the symbols in this rule. break return FirstInfo(firsts=firsts, is_epsilon=epsilons) @dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True) class FollowInfo: follows: list[set[int]] @classmethod def from_grammar( cls, grammar: list[list[typing.Tuple[int,...]]], terminal: typing.Tuple[bool, ...], start_symbol: int, end_symbol: int, firsts: FirstInfo, ): follows = [set() for _ in grammar] follows[start_symbol].add(end_symbol) changed = True while changed: changed = False for name, rules in enumerate(grammar): for rule in rules: epsilon = True prev_symbol = None for symbol in reversed(rule): f = follows[symbol] if terminal[symbol]: # This particular rule can't produce epsilon. epsilon = False prev_symbol = symbol continue # While epsilon is still set, update the follow of # this nonterminal with the follow of the production # we're processing. (This also means that the follow # of the last symbol in the production is the follow # of the entire production, as it should be.) if epsilon: changed = update_changed(f, follows[name]) or changed # If we're not at the end of the list then the follow # of the current symbol contains the first of the # next symbol. if prev_symbol is not None: changed = update_changed(f, firsts.firsts[prev_symbol]) or changed # Now if there's no epsilon in this symbol there's no # more epsilon in the rest of the sequence. if not firsts.is_epsilon[symbol]: epsilon = False prev_symbol = symbol return FollowInfo(follows=follows) class GenerateSLR1(GenerateLR0): """Generate parse tables for SLR1 grammars. SLR1 parsers can recognize more than LR0 parsers, because they have a little bit more information: instead of generating reduce actions for a production on all possible inputs, as LR0 parsers do, they generate reduce actions only for inputs that are in the 'follow' set of the non-terminal. That means SLR1 parsers need to know how to generate 'follow(A)', which means they need to know how to generate 'first(A)', which is most of the code in this class. """ _firsts: FirstInfo def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self._firsts = FirstInfo.from_grammar(self.grammar, self.terminal) self._follows = FollowInfo.from_grammar( self.grammar, self.terminal, self.start_symbol, self.end_symbol, self._firsts, ) def gen_first(self, symbols: typing.Iterable[int]) -> typing.Tuple[set[int], bool]: """Return the first set for a sequence of symbols. Build the set by combining the first sets of the symbols from left to right as long as epsilon remains in the first set. If we reach the end and every symbol has had epsilon, then this set also has epsilon. Otherwise we can stop as soon as we get to a non-epsilon first(), and our result does not have epsilon. """ result = set() for s in symbols: result.update(self._firsts.firsts[s]) if not self._firsts.is_epsilon[s]: return (result, False) return (result, True) def gen_follow(self, symbol: int) -> set[int]: """Generate the follow set for the given nonterminal. The follow set for a nonterminal is the set of terminals that can follow the nonterminal in a valid sentence. The resulting set never contains epsilon and is never empty, since we should always at least ground out at '$', which is the end-of-stream marker. """ return self._follows.follows[symbol] def gen_reduce_set(self, config: Configuration) -> typing.Iterable[int]: """Return the set of symbols that indicate we should reduce the given config. In an SLR1 parser, this is the follow set of the config nonterminal.""" return self.gen_follow(config.name) class GenerateLR1(GenerateSLR1): """Generate parse tables for LR1, or "canonical LR" grammars. LR1 parsers can recognize more than SLR parsers. Like SLR parsers, they are choosier about when they reduce. But unlike SLR parsers, they specify the terminals on which they reduce by carrying a 'lookahead' terminal in the configuration. The lookahead of a configuration is computed as the closure of a configuration set is computed, so see gen_closure_next for details. (Except for the start configuration, which has '$' as its lookahead.) """ def gen_reduce_set(self, config: Configuration) -> typing.Iterable[int]: """Return the set of symbols that indicate we should reduce the given config. In an LR1 parser, this is the lookahead of the configuration.""" return config.lookahead @functools.cache def gen_closure_next(self, config: Configuration): """Return the next set of configurations in the closure for config. In LR1 parsers, we must compute the lookahead for the configurations we're adding to the closure. The lookahead for the new configurations is the first() of the rest of this config's production. If that contains epsilon, then the lookahead *also* contains the lookahead we already have. (This lookahead was presumably generated by the same process, so in some sense it is a 'parent' lookahead, or a lookahead from an upstream production in the grammar.) (See the documentation in GenerateLR0 for more information on how this function fits into the whole process.) """ config_next = config.next if config_next is None: return () else: next = [] for rule in self.grammar[config_next]: lookahead, epsilon = self.gen_first(config.rest) if epsilon: lookahead.update(config.lookahead) lookahead = tuple(sorted(lookahead)) next.append(Configuration.from_rule(config_next, rule, lookahead=lookahead)) return tuple(sorted(next)) def gen_all_sets(self): """Generate all of the configuration sets for the grammar. In LR1 parsers, we must remember to set the lookahead of the start symbol to '$'. """ seeds = tuple( Configuration.from_rule(self.start_symbol, rule, lookahead=(self.end_symbol,)) for rule in self.grammar[self.start_symbol] ) initial_set = self.gen_closure(seeds) return self.gen_sets(initial_set) class GenerateLALR(GenerateLR1): """Generate tables for LALR. LALR is smaller than LR(1) but bigger than SLR(1). It works by generating the LR(1) configuration sets, but merging configuration sets which are equal in everything but their lookaheads. This works in that it doesn't generate any shift/reduce conflicts that weren't already in the LR(1) grammar. It can, however, introduce new reduce/reduce conflicts, because it does lose information. The advantage is that the number of parser states is much much smaller in LALR than in LR(1). (Note that because we use immutable state everywhere this generator does a lot of copying and allocation.) """ def merge_sets(self, config_set_a, config_set_b): """Merge the two config sets, by keeping the item cores but merging the lookahead sets for each item. """ assert len(config_set_a) == len(config_set_b) merged = [] for index, a in enumerate(config_set_a): b = config_set_b[index] assert a.clear_lookahead() == b.clear_lookahead() new_lookahead = a.lookahead + b.lookahead new_lookahead = tuple(sorted(set(new_lookahead))) merged.append(a.clear_lookahead()) return tuple(merged) def sets_equal(self, a, b): a_no_la = tuple(s.clear_lookahead() for s in a) b_no_la = tuple(s.clear_lookahead() for s in b) return a_no_la == b_no_la def gen_sets(self, config_set) -> ConfigurationSetInfo: """Recursively generate all configuration sets starting from the provided set, and merge them with the provided set 'F'. The difference between this method and the one in GenerateLR0, where this comes from, is in the part that stops recursion. In LALR we compare for set equality *ignoring lookahead*. If we find a match, then instead of returning F unchanged, we merge the two equal sets and replace the set in F, returning the modified set. """ F = {} successors = [] pending = [config_set] while len(pending) > 0: config_set = pending.pop() config_set_no_la = tuple(s.clear_lookahead() for s in config_set) existing = F.get(config_set_no_la) if existing is not None: F[config_set_no_la] = self.merge_sets(config_set, existing) else: F[config_set_no_la] = config_set for symbol, successor in self.gen_all_successors(config_set): successor_no_la = tuple(s.clear_lookahead() for s in successor) successors.append((config_set_no_la, symbol, successor_no_la)) pending.append(successor) # Register all the actually merged, final config sets. result = ConfigurationSetInfo() for config_set in F.values(): result.register_config_set(config_set) # Now record all the successors that we found. Of course, the actual # sets that wound up in the ConfigurationSetInfo don't match anything # we found during the previous phase. # # *Fortunately* we recorded the no-lookahead keys in the successors # so we can find the final sets, then look them up in the registered # sets, and actually register the successor. for config_set_no_la, symbol, successor_no_la in successors: actual_config_set = F[config_set_no_la] from_index = result.config_set_key[actual_config_set] actual_successor = F[successor_no_la] to_index = result.config_set_key[actual_successor] result.add_successor(from_index, symbol, to_index) return result def set_without_lookahead(self, config_set: ConfigSet) -> ConfigSet: return tuple(sorted(set(c.clear_lookahead() for c in config_set))) ############################################################################### # Formatting ############################################################################### def format_node(node): """Print out an indented concrete syntax tree, from parse().""" lines = [ '{name}'.format(name=node[0]) ] + [ ' ' + line for child in node[1] for line in format_node(child).split('\n') ] return '\n'.join(lines) def format_table(generator, table): """Format a parser table so pretty.""" def format_action(state, terminal): action = state.get(terminal, ('error',)) if action[0] == 'accept': return 'accept' elif action[0] == 'shift': return 's' + str(action[1]) elif action[0] == 'error': return '' elif action[0] == 'reduce': return 'r' + str(action[1]) terminals = list(sorted( generator.alphabet[i] for i,v in enumerate(generator.terminal) if v )) nonterminals = list(sorted( generator.alphabet[i] for i,v in enumerate(generator.nonterminal) if v )) header = " | {terms} | {nts}".format( terms=' '.join( '{0: <6}'.format(terminal) for terminal in terminals ), nts=' '.join( '{0: <5}'.format(nt) for nt in nonterminals ), ) lines = [ header, '-' * len(header), ] + [ "{index: <3} | {actions} | {gotos}".format( index=i, actions=' '.join( '{0: <6}'.format(format_action(row, terminal)) for terminal in terminals ), gotos=' '.join( '{0: <5}'.format(row.get(nt, ('error', ''))[1]) for nt in nonterminals ), ) for i, row in enumerate(table) ] return '\n'.join(lines) ############################################################################### # Examples ############################################################################### def examples(): def dump_grammar(grammar): for name, symbols in grammar: print(f"{name} -> {symbols}") print() # OK, this is a very simple LR0 grammar. print("grammar_simple:") grammar_simple = [ ('E', ['E', '+', 'T']), ('E', ['T']), ('T', ['(', 'E', ')']), ('T', ['id']), ] gen = GenerateLR0('E', grammar_simple) table = gen.gen_table() print(format_table(gen, table)) tree = parse(table, ['id', '+', '(', 'id', ')']) print(format_node(tree) + "\n") print() # This one doesn't work with LR0, though, it has a shift/reduce conflict. print("grammar_lr0_shift_reduce (LR0):") grammar_lr0_shift_reduce = grammar_simple + [ ('T', ['id', '[', 'E', ']']), ] try: gen = GenerateLR0('E', grammar_lr0_shift_reduce) table = gen.gen_table() assert False except ValueError as e: print(e) print() # Nor does this: it has a reduce/reduce conflict. print("grammar_lr0_reduce_reduce (LR0):") grammar_lr0_reduce_reduce = grammar_simple + [ ('E', ['V', '=', 'E']), ('V', ['id']), ] try: gen = GenerateLR0('E', grammar_lr0_reduce_reduce) table = gen.gen_table() assert False except ValueError as e: print(e) print() # Nullable symbols just don't work with constructs like this, because you can't # look ahead to figure out if you should reduce an empty 'F' or not. print("grammar_nullable (LR0):") grammar_nullable = [ ('E', ['F', 'boop']), ('F', ['beep']), ('F', []), ] try: gen = GenerateLR0('E', grammar_nullable) table = gen.gen_table() assert False except ValueError as e: print(e) print() print("grammar_lr0_shift_reduce (SLR1):") dump_grammar(grammar_lr0_shift_reduce) gen = GenerateSLR1('E', grammar_lr0_shift_reduce) first, epsilon=gen.gen_first((gen.symbol_key['E'],)) print(f"First('E'): {str([gen.alphabet[f] for f in first])} (epsilon={epsilon})") print(f"Follow('E'): {str([gen.alphabet[f] for f in gen.gen_follow(gen.symbol_key['E'])])}") table = gen.gen_table() print(format_table(gen, table)) tree = parse(table, ['id', '+', '(', 'id', '[', 'id', ']', ')'], trace=True) print(format_node(tree) + "\n") print() # SLR1 can't handle this. print("grammar_aho_ullman_1 (SLR1):") grammar_aho_ullman_1 = [ ('S', ['L', '=', 'R']), ('S', ['R']), ('L', ['*', 'R']), ('L', ['id']), ('R', ['L']), ] try: gen = GenerateSLR1('S', grammar_aho_ullman_1) table = gen.gen_table() assert False except ValueError as e: print(e) print() # Here's an example with a full LR1 grammar, though. print("grammar_aho_ullman_2 (LR1):") grammar_aho_ullman_2 = [ ('S', ['X', 'X']), ('X', ['a', 'X']), ('X', ['b']), ] gen = GenerateLR1('S', grammar_aho_ullman_2) table = gen.gen_table() print(format_table(gen, table)) parse(table, ['b', 'a', 'a', 'b'], trace=True) print() # What happens if we do LALR to it? print("grammar_aho_ullman_2 (LALR):") gen = GenerateLALR('S', grammar_aho_ullman_2) table = gen.gen_table() print(format_table(gen, table)) print() # A fun LALAR grammar. print("grammar_lalr:") grammar_lalr = [ ('S', ['V', 'E']), ('E', ['F']), ('E', ['E', '+', 'F']), ('F', ['V']), ('F', ['int']), ('F', ['(', 'E', ')']), ('V', ['id']), ] gen = GenerateLALR('S', grammar_lalr) table = gen.gen_table() print(format_table(gen, table)) print() if __name__=="__main__": examples()