syntax directed translation

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syntax directed translation - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  syntax directed translation
  
     A technique where the structure of a language processor (e.g. a
     compiler) is based on the structure of the language's
     abstract syntax.  There might be one procedure in the
     translator corresponding to each category in the abstract
     syntax.  That procedure is responsible for processing
     constructs of that category.  Each procedure would call others
     corresponding to the construct's subconstituents and then
     combine their results to give the overall result for that
     construct.