calculator grammar

Bjarne Stroustrup “Programming Principles and Practice Using C++”
Chapter 7 Exercise 8
Using std_lib_facilities.h by Bjarne Stroustrup.

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// Philipp Siedler
// Bjarne Stroustrup’s PP
// Chapter 7 Exercise 8

/*
Simple calculator

Revision history:

Revised by Philipp Siedler May 2017
Revised by Bjarne Stroustrup November 2013
Revised by Bjarne Stroustrup May 2007
Revised by Bjarne Stroustrup August 2006
Revised by Bjarne Stroustrup August 2004
Originally written by Bjarne Stroustrup
(bs@cs.tamu.edu) Spring 2004

This program implements a basic expression calculator.
Input from cin; output to cout;
The grammar for input is:

Calculation:
Statement
Print
Quit
Help
Calculation Statement

Statement:
Declaration
Expression

Declaration:
"let" Name "=" Expression
"const" name "=" Expression

Name:
letter
letter Sequence
Sequence:
letter
digit
"_"
letter Sequence
digit Sequence
"_" Sequence

Print:
";" or ‘\n’

Quit:
"quit"

Help
"help" or "Help"

Expression:
Term
Expression + Term
Expression – Term

Term:
Primary
Term * Primary
Term / Primary
Term % Primary

Primary:
Number
"(" Expression ")"
"-" Primary
"+" Primary
"sqrt(" Expression ")"
"pow(" Expression "," Integer ")"
Name
Name "=" Expression

Number:
floating-point-literal

Input comes from cin through the Token_stream called ts.
*/
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