Re:What the heck is a parser-combinator?
by tel on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @07:58AM
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They're pretty damn efficient and nicely modular if you're okay with not having context sensitivity. Most of the time you're okay with not have context sensitivity, imo.
Context sensitivity as I wrote it here is the most powerful but least optimizable version. There are plenty of tricks to improve optimization. You can even write a "cut" combinatory to break backtracking.
It's a huge design space. The answer to all of your questions will probably be: it depends.
Context sensitivity as I wrote it here is the most powerful but least optimizable version. There are plenty of tricks to improve optimization. You can even write a "cut" combinatory to break backtracking.
It's a huge design space. The answer to all of your questions will probably be: it depends.