From: joel de guzman (isis-tech_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-28 18:47:07
From: "Vladimir Prus" :
> John Max Skaller wrote
>
> > joel de guzman wrote:
> >> I believe there's more we can squeeze from RD.
>
>
> > What you need is a Recursive Transition Network.
> >This is what Python uses. It is a very powerful blend
> >of recursive descent and finite state machines.
>
> > [snip]
>
> >It can be shown that RTN's can recognize all context free
> >languages. This is much more powerful than regular,
> >LL(1), or RD.
>
> Interesting. What is average/worst case complexity? Can you give a link to
> some paper that discusses RTN?
>
This is truly worth investigating. Thank you for the info, Mr. Skaller.
Joel de Guzman