On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Ed Day wrote:

> We have dealt with this problem and others like it using the infamous "lex
> tie-in" that is prevalent in the SNACC code.  That is to say swallow the
> whole thing up and deal with it on the back end essentially emulating
> multi-token look aheads.  It isn't pretty, but it works.

Agreed.  Any number of tools cope fine with the BNF as it is, I don't see
the need for a change.  Remember that ASN.1 is not LR(1).

Bancroft

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