Practice Deterministic Context-free Languages (dcfls) (6.4.2) - Pushdown Automata (PDA) and Non-Context-Free Languages
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Deterministic Context-Free Languages (DCFLs)

Practice - Deterministic Context-Free Languages (DCFLs)

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

Define a Deterministic Context-Free Language (DCFL).

💡 Hint: Think about the type of automaton it is associated with.

Question 2 Easy

Give an example of a DCFL.

💡 Hint: Think about languages that require matching.

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Question 1

What does DCFL stand for?

💡 Hint: Remember the specific type of language.

Question 2

Can the language of palindromes be recognized by a DPDA?

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about matching from both ends.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Prove that the language L = { ww | w ∈ {a,b}* } cannot be recognized by any DPDA.

💡 Hint: Think about how DPDAs are limited in their stack usage.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain how a programming language could be structured to be a DCFL.

💡 Hint: Look at the frameworks used in modern programming languages.

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