Implementation of multiple attribute grammar inheritance in the tool LISA

Abstract

Multiple attribute grammar inheritance is a structural organization of attribute grammars where the attribute grammar inherits the specifications from ancestor attribute grammars, may add new specifications or may override some specifications from ancestor specifications. In the paper the implementation of multiple attribute grammar inheritance is described. The proposed approach is successfully implemented in the compiler/interpreter generator tool LISA ver. 2.0.

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