The Metal definition

• Introduction
  • Abstract syntax
  • Concrete syntax
• The Metal environment
  • Metal tools
• The abstract syntax of Exp
  • Alternate abstract syntaxes
• The concrete syntax of Exp
  • Production rules
  • Tree construction
  • Trivial rules and priority
  • Metal and yacc
  • The complete Exp specification
• An Exp parser
  • The Buildfile
  • The lexical description
  • Comments
  • Parser creation and startup
  • Reading an Exp program