What is a common limitation of LL parsers?

Practice Questions

Q1
What is a common limitation of LL parsers?
  1. They cannot handle ambiguous grammars.
  2. They require more memory than LR parsers.
  3. They can only parse regular languages.
  4. They are slower than LR parsers.

Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions

What is a common limitation of LL parsers?
  • Step 1: Understand what an LL parser is. It is a type of parser that reads input from left to right and produces a leftmost derivation of the sentence.
  • Step 2: Learn about grammars. A grammar is a set of rules that defines how sentences in a language can be formed.
  • Step 3: Know what ambiguous grammars are. An ambiguous grammar is one that can produce more than one valid parse tree for the same input string.
  • Step 4: Recognize the limitation. LL parsers cannot process ambiguous grammars because they rely on a single way to interpret the input.
  • Step 5: Understand the impact. This limitation means that LL parsers cannot be used for all types of programming languages or expressions, especially those that are ambiguous.
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