Precedence Functions
An operator precedence parser usually does not store the precedence table with the relations, which can get rather large. Instead, precedence functions f and g are defined. They map terminal symbols to integers, and so the precedence relations between the symbols are implemented by numerical comparison: f(a) < g(b) must hold if a <• b holds, etc.
Not every table of precedence relations has precedence functions, but in practice for most grammars such functions can be designed.
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