> There is no such variance and new fashions in compilers every year. Indeed. Packrat is exactly an example of passing fad in parsing. I find it telling that y

> There is no such variance and new fashions in compilers every year. Indeed. Packrat is exactly an example of passing fad in parsing. I find it telling that you, an "optimizations expert" are so worried about ways to parse. Shows that "new fashions every year" have reached the compiler industry too.