I think you can find these advertised as PEGs, or Parser Expression Grammars. The first I learned about was Lua's LPeg: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/

I think you can find these advertised as PEGs, or Parser Expression Grammars. The first I learned about was Lua's LPeg: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/ http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/