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According to this post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28397767/computing-leading-and-trailing-sets-for-context-free-grammar while constructing operator precendence parser we have to create tabel with operator. Actually i dont understand the rules which tells how to build such table. For example take last production term -> '(' expr ')' do we use rule terminal nonterminal because of ( expr or do we use rule nonterminal terminal because of expr ) or do we use rule terminal nonterminal terminal shoudl we divide production or treat as whole? Then is there any other rule applicable in example from link then terminal nonterminal terminal ?

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I think that answer is clear (although of course I would do, because I wrote it).

What it says is:

if you find

$$nonterminal\; TERMINAL$$

in any production, then you add the precedence relations $TRAIL \gtrdot TERMINAL$ for every $TRAIL$ in $Trailing(nonterminal)$. Similarly, every occurrence of

$$TERMINAL\; nonterminal$$

generates the relationships $TERMINAL \lessdot LEAD$ for every $LEAD$ in $Leading(nonterminal)$.

So in $'(' expr ')'$, you have both an instance of $TERMINAL\; nonterminal$ and an instance of $nonterminal\; TERMINAL$, and you need to deal with both of them independently.

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  • $\begingroup$ Do we have $ operator in such gramma or we ignore it? $\endgroup$
    – whd
    May 31, 2016 at 18:45
  • $\begingroup$ Do you mean the convention of augmenting grammars with an end-of-input symbol? If so, that is usually done in order to finish the parse. Since the only use of $ in the grammar will be in the augmented production S' -> S $, we can conclude that every terminal T which has a relation with $ has the relation T ⋗ $. In practice, it's easy to just add that relation to every terminal. $\endgroup$
    – rici
    May 31, 2016 at 18:51

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