July 2000 Draft JavaScript 2.0 Formal Description Parser Grammar

Friday, May 26, 2000

This LALR(1) grammar describes the syntax of the JavaScript 2.0 proposal. The starting nonterminal is Program. See also the description of the grammar notation.

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Terminals

General tokens: Identifier   Number   RegularExpression   String   VirtualSemicolon

Punctuation tokens: !   !=   !==   %   %=   &   &&   &&=   &=   (   )   *   *=   +   ++   +=   ,   -   --   -=   .   ...   /   /=   :   ::   ;   <   <<   <<=   <=   =   ==   ===   >   >=   >>   >>=   >>>   >>>=   ?   @   [   ]   ^   ^=   ^^   ^^=   {   |   |=   ||   ||=   }   ~

Future punctuation tokens: #   ->

Reserved words: break   case   catch   class   const   continue   default   delete   do   else   eval   export   extends   false   final   finally   for   function   if   implements   import   in   instanceof   interface   new   null   package   private   public   return   static   super   switch   this   throw   true   try   typeof   var   volatile   while   with

Future reserved words: abstract   debugger   enum   goto   native   protected   synchronized   throws   transient

Non-reserved words: attribute   constructor   get   language   namespace   set   use

Expressions

Identifiers

Primary Expressions

Function Expressions

Object Literals

Array Literals

Postfix Unary Operators

Prefix Unary Operators

Multiplicative Operators

Additive Operators

Bitwise Shift Operators

Relational Operators

Equality Operators

Binary Bitwise Operators

Binary Logical Operators

Conditional Operator

Assignment Operators

Expressions

Type Expressions

Statements

Empty Statement

Expression Statement

Block

Labeled Statements

If Statement

Switch Statement

Do-While Statement

While Statement

For Statements

With Statement

Continue and Break Statements

Return Statement

Throw Statement

Try Statement

Import Statement

Use Statement

Definitions

The last two AnnotatedDefinition productions together have the same effect as AnnotatedDefinition Attributes Definition except that the latter would make the grammar non-LR(1).

Export Definition

Variable Definition

Function Definition

Class Definition

Interface Definition

Namespace Definition

Attribute Definition

Language Declaration

Package Definition

Programs

Waldemar Horwat Last modified Friday, May 26, 2000