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Dangling else problem
A common ambiguity in programming languages (particularly those with C-like syntax) in which an optional else
clause may be interpreted as belonging to more than one if
sentence. Usually resolved in favour of the closest if
, often by an implicit disambiguation rule (at least in non-generalised parsing).
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