a permanent table which lists all key words and special symbols of the language in symbolic form
consists of a full or partial list of the tokens as they appear in the program. Created by Lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation
a permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure
to parse the source program into the basic elements or tokens of the language
to build a literal table and an identifier table
to recognize the major constructs of the language and to call the appropriate action routines that will generate the intermediate form or matrix for these constructs
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