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Re:Which Parsing Approach? by mathgladiator on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:51PM (#24484303)
What do you mean by incremental?

I recently hand-wrote my own parser so I could achieve some these results. Having used parser generators in the past, I realize now that hand writing a parser is SO much more flexible.

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Re:Which Parsing Approach? by hardwaregeek on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:57PM (#24484383)
Lots of these parsers figure out what changed and only reparse the difference. This is pretty important if the parser is powering a language server, as reparsing needs to happen while the user is typing, so that autocomplete and other features work.
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