An engineer changes a computational parser from breadth-first to depth-first traversal for a grammar with left recursion. Which consequence follows?

💡 Explanation

A depth-first parser may enter an infinite loop when processing a grammar with left recursion because it repeatedly attempts to expand the leftmost non-terminal. Therefore, the parser loops, rather than conserving memory or finding shorter derivations, which are outcomes of different parsing strategies or grammar structures.

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