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The purpose of this change is to share this trait with other crates,
such as the forth-coming "semiring" crate that will be responsible for
handling some simple semiring operations as well as the querying, in
my plans.
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Previously some incorrect forest nodes will be used for planting new
nodes. I cannot fix the root cause of their presence in the
chain-rule machine. But I can ignore them when they are encountered.
Of course I would like to really prevent them from existing, but still
cannot figure out how.
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Now the binding part is finished.
What remains is a bug encountered when planting a fragment to the
forest which intersects a packed node, which would lead to invalid
forests. This will also cause problem when planting a packed
fragment, but until now my testing grammars do not produce packed
fragments, so this problem is not encountered yet.
I am still figuring out efficient ways to solve this problem.
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* chain/src/default.rs:
* chain/src/lib.rs: Add a parameter that controls whether or not the
chain-rule machine computes the item derivation forest as well.
Sometimes we only need to recognize whether an input belongs to the
grammar, but do not care about the derivations. This parameter can
speed up the machine in that case.
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I decide to adopt a new approach of recording and updating item
derivation forests. Since this affects a lot of things, I decide to
commit before the refactor, so that I can create a branch for that
refactor.
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Previously there was a minor bug: if the chain-rule machine ended in a
node without children, which node should be accepting because of edges
that have no children and hence were ignored, then since the node has
no children, it would be regarded as not accepting. Now this issue is
fixed by introducting real or imaginary edges, where an imaginary edge
is used to determine the acceptance of nodes without chidlren.
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I need more than the ability to clone nodes: I also need to split the
nodes. Now this seems to be correctly added.
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It seems to be complete now, but still awaits more tests to see where
the errors are, which should be plenty, haha.
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Now the forest can detect if a node is packed or cloned, and correctly
clones a node in those circumstances. But it still needs to be
tested.
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I have an ostensibly working prototype now.
Further tests are needed to make sure that the algorithm meets the
time complexity requirement, though.
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I put functionalities that are not strictly core to separate crates,
so that the whole package becomes more modular, and makes it easier to
try other parsing algorithms in the future.
Also I have to figure the forests out before finishing the core
chain-rule algorithm, as the part about forests affects the labels of
the grammars directly. From my experiences in writing the previous
version, it is asking for trouble to change the labels type
dramatically at a later point: too many places need to be changed.
Thus I decide to figure the rough part of forests out.
Actually I only have to figure out how to attach forests fragments to
edges of the underlying atomic languages, and the more complex parts
of putting forests together can be left to the recorders, which is my
vision of assembling semi-ring values during the chain-rule machine.
It should be relatively easy to produce forests fragments from
grammars since we are just trying to extract some information from the
grammar, not to manipulate those information in some complicated way.
We have to do some manipulations in the process, though, in order to
make sure that the nulling and epsilon-removal processes do not
invalidate these fragments.
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Some changes:
- The core crate is renamed to "chain".
- The crate "viz" is added, which will provide layered graph drawing
algorithms.
- A function is added to convert from a grammar to the regular
language of its left-linear closures.
- A function is added to convert from a nondeterministic finite
automaton to its "null" closure. A null closure is the same
automaton with edges added, as if some edges are "null". Whether an
edge is null is determined by a function.
Combined with the previous change, we can convert a grammar to the
regular language of the null closure of its left-linear closures.
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Now it remains to test more grammars and add an Atom trait, before
finishing the part about compilations.
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