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Context-free grammars have limited power. Not all languages can be described by them completely. Programming languages, for instance, typically require that identifiers may be used only if they are properly declared. It is in general not possible to write a context-free grammar that describes only the programs without declaration errors.
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Leermakers, R. (1993). Attribute Grammars. In: The Functional Treatment of Parsing. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 242. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3186-9_8
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