Your grammer doesn't allow a statement to contain a calculation, where a calculation is 4+8 let's say. So, after it consumes the 4+8 it has no way to know what to do with the +5 part. Also as an asside, you have all the math operators at the same precedence...so you'll end up wandering later why 2+4*5 = 30 and not 22 :)

The grammer for parsing standard algebra is a pretty common example for teaching parsing. (Give me a sec to dig up a link for an example) :)

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Complete example (almost) taken straight from the "Dragon" compiler book. Page 259 

expression: expression '+' term
          | expression '-' term
          | term

term: term '*' factor
    | term '/' factor
    | factor

factor: '(' expression ')'
      | /\d+/

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I'm sorry I don't have time to explain exactly how it works, but I can tell you how to figure that out. Turn on tracing as you have, and watch as many examples as you can and pay close attention to HOW Parse::RecDescent walks this grammer and your input.

/\/\averick
perl -l -e "eval pack('h*','072796e6470272f2c5f2c5166756279636b672');"

In reply to Re: Parse::RecDescent without parentheses by maverick
in thread Parse::RecDescent without parentheses by hsmyers

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