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A formal grammar that contains left recursion cannot be parsed by a LL(k)-parser or other naive recursive descent parser unless it is converted to a weakly equivalent right-recursive form. In contrast, left recursion is preferred for LALR parsers because it results in lower stack usage than right recursion .
For a general method, see removing left recursion. A simple example for left recursion removal: The following production rule has left recursion on E E -> E '+' T E -> T This rule is nothing but list of Ts separated by '+'. In a regular expression form T ('+' T)*. So the rule could be rewritten as E -> T Z Z -> '+' T Z Z -> ε Now there is no ...
However a-a-a causes a problem since (a-a)-a=-a and a-(a-a)=a. So maybe this should be used as an example. It might also be worth to mention a further pitfall, that by removing left recursion using Paull's algorithm, a grammar can grow exponentially even though the grammar is not left recursive at all.
An LR parser (left-to-right, rightmost derivation in reverse) reads input text from left to right without backing up (this is true for most parsers), and produces a rightmost derivation in reverse: it does a bottom-up parse – not a top-down LL parse or ad-hoc parse.
Grammars of this type can match anything that can be matched by a regular grammar, and furthermore, can handle the concept of recursive "nesting" ("every A is eventually followed by a matching B"), such as the question of whether a given string contains correctly nested parentheses. The rules of Context-free grammars are purely local, however ...
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LL grammars can alternatively be characterized as precisely those that can be parsed by a predictive parser – a recursive descent parser without backtracking – and these can be readily written by hand. This article is about the formal properties of LL grammars; for parsing, see LL parser or recursive descent parser.