$C   /* Generate Main Module, C */
COMPILER Decl
/* Translate simple C declarations into English
   Based on Kernighan and Ritchie: "C Programming language", page 122
   See also: Parr et.al. "PCCTS reference manual", page 53 in ACM SIGPLAN
   Notices 27(2), 88-165, 1992 */

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

CHARACTERS
  digit =  "0123456789" .
  letter = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyx_" .

IGNORE CHR(9) .. CHR(13)

TOKENS
  number = digit { digit } .
  name = letter { letter } .

PRODUCTIONS

  Decl       =                            (. char Tipe[100]; .)
               { name                     (. LexName(Tipe, sizeof(Tipe) - 1); .)
                 Dcl                      (. printf(" %s\n", Tipe); .)
                 ";" } .

  Dcl        =   "*" Dcl                  (. printf(" pointer to"); .)
               | DirectDcl .

  DirectDcl  =                            (. char Name[100]; .)
                name                      (. LexName(Name, sizeof(Name) - 1);
                                             printf(" %s is", Name); .)
                 Descriptor
               | "(" Dcl ")" Descriptor .

  Descriptor =                            (. char buff[100]; .)
               [  "["                     (. printf(" array "); .)
                  ( number                (. LexString(buff, sizeof(buff) - 1);
                                             printf("[%d] ", atoi(buff)); .)
                    | /* no dimension */
                  )
                  "]"                     (. printf("of"); .)
                  Descriptor
                | "(" ")"                 (. printf(" function returning"); .)
               ] .

END Decl.