Re: Interesting ambiguity in "The Complete Syntax of Lua"

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> > Lua's parser is greedy. a = f(g)(h)[i] is legal, so it is not interested
> > in trying anything shorter.
> 
> I see, thanks. Does this greediness requirement mean that Lua's
> grammar is non-deterministic (that it does not belong to any of the
> commonly-used subclasses of the context-free grammars such as LR(k))?

Yes (just like the usual grammars for most real languages).

-- Roberto