Definition
"A grammar is left-recursive if we can find some non-terminal A which will eventually derive a sentential form with itself as the left-symbol."
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“No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than thisdevoted and obedient. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.”
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