Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780133943023
Author: Robert W. Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4, Problem 16RQ

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FIRST set for a given grammar and sentential form:

We can define FIRST for a non-terminal A in a grammar as a set which contains terminals that can occur as the first terminal symbol in a string which is derivable from A. FIRST is computed based on the RHSs of the non-terminal in the given grammar...

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