- The link field is used for chaining symbols that hash states by
- their itemsets. This is for recognizing equivalent states and
- combining them when the states are generated.
-
- The two types of transitions are shifts (push the lookahead token
- and read another) and reductions (combine the last n things on the
- stack via a rule, replace them with the symbol that the rule
- derives, and leave the lookahead token alone). When the states are
- generated, these transitions are represented in two other lists.
-
- Each shifts structure describes the possible shift transitions out
- of one state, the state whose number is in the number field. The
- shifts structures are linked through next and first_shift points to
- them. Each contains a vector of numbers of the states that shift
- transitions can go to. The accessing_symbol fields of those
- states' cores say what kind of input leads to them.
-
- A shift to state zero should be ignored. Conflict resolution
- deletes shifts by changing them to zero.
+ The two types of actions are shifts/gotos (push the lookahead token
+ and read another/goto to the state designated by a nterm) and
+ reductions (combine the last n things on the stack via a rule,
+ replace them with the symbol that the rule derives, and leave the
+ lookahead token alone). When the states are generated, these
+ actions are represented in two other lists.
+
+ Each transition_t structure describes the possible transitions out
+ of one state, the state whose number is in the number field. Each
+ contains a vector of numbers of the states that transitions can go
+ to. The accessing_symbol fields of those states' cores say what
+ kind of input leads to them.
+
+ A transition to state zero should be ignored: conflict resolution
+ deletes transitions by having them point to zero.