Design, Implementation and Application of a Table-Driven Syntax-Directed Editor

摘要

A syntax-directed editor facilitates the creation of programs in a particular programming language. Because it is based on the syntax of the language, the editor ensures the syntactic correctness of edited programs. This thesis discusses the writer's development of a table-driven syntax-directed editor capable of editing information structured under virtually any context-free grammar. Not only does this editor ensure syntactically correct programs, but it also possesses limited translation capabilities, both between high-level languages and from a high-level language into a directly executable form. The broader implications of such an editor, and of syntax-directed editing in general, are also discussed.