Infix notation : evaluation of a string using in java - data-structures

can you help me with my little problem? I'm a bit confused 'bout infix notations . My teacher ask me to implement the Data Structure of infix notation of a string using stack , i would like to cite it to understand it easily .
the string is "(June)" , in the stack the open parenthesis is pushed into the stack leaving the string June be , and if it passes through the closed parenthesis , the open parenthesis will pop , and the output will be a valid string.
can you help me with my problem guys ,sorry i'm just a newbie programmer. and i'm willing to know what are the steps .

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Coq notation format for double square braces

According to the documentation, one can define formats for printing notations:
https://coq.inria.fr/refman/Reference-Manual014.html#sec530
However, one can define a notation such as:
Notation " '[[' a ']]' b " := (* something *).
It is very unclear whether the two can interact. Trying:
format " '[hv' '[[' a ']]' ']' b "
for instance, trips Coq up as it expects a square brace to be followed by one of , v, and hv.
Any other sort of escaping I have tried so far made Coq refuse the format as not matching the notation.
I'm not sure this can be done...
Your friend here is metasyntax:parse_format https://github.com/coq/coq/blob/trunk/toplevel/metasyntax.ml#L102
As you can see in the code, your concrete scheme is not going to work. I dunno if there could be some specific hack, for now you'll have to desist using double brackets.
I am certain however that a patch adding a case for [[ in parse_quoted would be considered by Coq upstream.
Hopefully 8.7 will bring some improvements here, CEP#9 tries to propose replacing/evolving unparsing to a true box-based model.

Can someone please explain what (:+) is in Ruby?

Can someone please explain what (:+) is in Ruby? I have tried googling it & looking a reference guides and cant find anything. Thanks, sorry Im pretty new to Ruby & programming.
A colon : before a sequence of characters* is a Symbol literal. This applies to :+, which is a Symbol with content "+".
A symbol can be used to reference a method with the same name in some contexts, and in a couple of places your example :+ can be a reference to the + operator, which is really just a method with the same name. Ruby supports syntax to call it when it sees a plain + in an expression, or in some core methods it will convert :+
As an example you can use :+ as shorthand to create a sum of an Array of integers:
[1,2,3,4].inject( :+ )
=> 10
This works because Ruby has special-cased that specific use of operators in Array#inject (actually defined in Enumberable#inject, and Array gets it from that module).
A more general use-case for a symbol like this is the send method:
2.send( :+, 2 )
=> 4
Although 2.send( "+", 2 ) works just fine too. It might seem odd when used like this instead of just 2 + 2, but it can be handy if you want to make a more dynamic choice of operator.
* The rules for the syntax allowed or not allowed in a Symbol literal are a little arcane. They enable you to write shorter literals where possible, but Ruby has to avoid some ambiguous syntax such as a Symbol with a . or whitespace in the middle. This is allowed, just you have to add quotes if you generate such a Symbol e.g. :"this.that"
Ruby will tell you
:+.class
# Symbol
(:+) is the symbol in parentheses.

Prolog reassigning operators

I'm new to prolog and I'm trying to reassign operators in prolog by changing their precedence. I'm running into 4 errors for the following:
:-op(1000,yf,+). %unary plus%
:-op(1000,yf,-). %unary minus%
:-op(750,yfx,"%"). %modulo%
The first two give me a similar error that goes like this:
warning: directive failed (op(1000,xf,+)) with exception (error(permission_error(create,operator,+),op/3))
I also get an error with the modulo one (a different error), but I suspect it's because I'm not supposed to enclose % in quotes (but how am I supposed to differentiate it from a comment marker?).
I've redefined a bunch of other operators (such as the addition operator :-op(500,yfx,+).) and they give me no problems. Only the 3 listed above give me errors.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks!
GNU Prolog documentation states that
An atom can have multiple operator definitions (e.g. prefix and infix like +) however an atom cannot have both an infix and a postfix operator definitions.
from here the errors on first two declaration. Then you should change the specifier to fy.
The modulo operator will need single quotes around.
You are attempting to define + as a postfix operator. However, + is also defined as an infix operator and the standard does not permit to define an operator both as postfix and infix. If you really want to do this you have to first undefine the infix operator using priority 0.
However, I can only recommend that you do not change standard operators like + or -. It's like you would change the operator precedence in C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Javascript and the like: It would make your life as a programmer very, very miserable.
I cannot recommend to use % as operator in Prolog: % starts a comment. If you want to use it as an operator, you would have to write '%' quoted all the time. Prolog has already mod and rem defined as operators. Isn't that enough?
You are probably using GNU Prolog which is quite ISO conforming. Other Prologs permit you to define infix and postfix at the same time. See #237. But those other Prologs do a lot of things differently.
As a general remark: As a beginner, better stay away from changing the operator table. You really need to get used to the standard operators first. And with more experience you will most probably prefer to only add new operators with similar precedence than existing ones.
iso-prolog: ISO/IEC 13211-1:1995 6.3.4.3 Operators, last paragraph:
There shall not be an infix and a postfix operator with thesame name.

ACM programming - Arithmetica 1.0 - any additional operators?

Has anyone in this forum attempted to solve the ACM programming problem http://acm.mipt.ru/judge/problems.pl?browse=yes&problem=024? It is one of the simpler problems in ACM MIPT and the goal is to evaluate an expression consisting of +, -, * and parentheses. Despite the apparent simplicity, I haven't been able to get my solution accepted, apparently because one of the test case expressions has an operator not stated in the problem. I even added support for division ('/') but that too didn't help. Any idea on what other operator needs to be supported? FYI, my program removes all whitespaces from the input before processing so that spaces shouldn't be a problem. Anything not stated in the problem but needs to be taken care of?
You're being bitten by ruby's handling of strings and characters.
curr_ch = #input[i]
gives you an integer, for the input you get, the ASCII code of the character at index i of the input.
curr_ch == '('
for example compares that integer to the string "(", of course that fails. Also the regex matches fail because you pass them an integer where a string is expected.
Replacing all occurrences of some_var = #input[some_index] with some_var = #input[some_index...some_index+1] gives me a programme that seems to work (it works on a few test inputs I gave it). Probably someone who actually knows the quirks of ruby can give you a better fix.

Write a code to generate the parse tree

This question was asked to me in an interview question:
Write a code to generate the parse tree like compilers do internally for any given expression. For example:
a+(b+c*(e/f)+d)*g
Start by defining the language. No one can implement a parser or a compiler to a language that isn't very well defined. You give an example: 'a+(b+c*(e/f)+d)*g', which should trigger the following questions:
Is the language a single expression, or there may be multiple statements (separated by ';' maybe?
what are the 'a', 'b', ... 'g' tokens? Is it variable? What is the syntax of variables? Is it a C-like variable, or is it a single alphanumeric character as your example may imply.
There are 3 binary expression in your example. Is that all? Does the language also support '-'. Does your language support logical, and bit-wise operators?
Does the language support number literals? integer only? double? Does the language support string literals? Do you quote string literals?
Syntax for comments?
Which operator has precedence? Does '*' operator has precedence over '+' as in the example? Does operands evaluated right to left or left to right?
Any Pre-processing?
Once you are equipped with a good definition of the language syntax, start with implementing a tokenizer. A tokenizer gets a stream of characters and generates a list of tokens. In the example above, each character is a token, but in var*12 (var power 12) there are 3 tokens: 'var', '*' and '12'. If regular expression is permitted, it is possible you can do this part of the parsing with regular expressions.
Next, have a function that identify each token by type: is it an operator, is it a variable, a number literal, string literal, etc. Package all in a method called NextToken that returns a token and its type.
Finally, start parsing. In your sample above the root of the parsing tree will be a node with the '+' operator (which has precedence over the ''). The left child is a variable token 'a' and the right child is a tree with a root element the '' token. Work recursively.
Simple way out is to convert your expression into postfix notation (abcef/*++) & then refer to the answer to this question (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423898/postfix-notation-to-expression-tree) for converting the postfix expression to a Tree.
This is what the interviewer expected :)
Whenever you intend to write a parser, the main question to ask is if you want to do it manually, or to use a parser generator framework.
In this case, I would say that it's a good exercise to write it all yourself.
Start with a good representation for the tree itself. This will be be output of your algorithm. For example, this could be a collection of objects, where one object kind could represent a "label" like a, b, and c in your example. Others could represent numbers. You could then defined a representation of operators, for example + is a binary operator, which would have two subobjects, representing the left and right subexpression.
Next step is the actual parser, I would suggest a classical recursive decent parser. One text describing this, and provides a standard pseudo-code implementation is this text by Theodore Norvell
I'd start with a simple grammar, something like those used by ANTLR and JavaCC.

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