CSC 533: Organization of Programming Languages
Fall 2002

HW2: EBNF Grammar


The following questions all refer to the EBNF of Modula-2.

  1. Which of the following are legal numbers in Modula-2? For each legal number, provide a parse tree (with the <number> abstraction at the root). 00 -2.9 C 3AH 2E-4 0.01E12 5.5E+5.5
  2. Describe, in concise English, the format for identifiers (<ident>) in Modula-2. That is, what characters may be used? What restrictions (if any) are there on order?

  3. What is the shortest possible subroutine (<procedure_declaration>) in Modula-2? Justify your answer.

  4. What is the order of precedence for the operators +, and * in Modula-2? Justify your answer by providing the parse tree for the <expression>:   1+2*3.

  5. Does the dangling-else problem apply to Modula-2? Justify your answer.