pan class="special">()&gt;</span> <span class="identifier">first</span><span class="special">;</span>
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        The used notation resembles the definition of a function type. This is very
        natural as you can think of the synthesized attribute of the grammar and
        the rule as of its 'return value'. In fact the rule and the grammar both
        'return' an unsigned value - the value they matched.
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