This is my favorite parsing technique, but I found Crockford's presentation of it really difficult to wrap my head around. I think he muddles the technique with

This is my favorite parsing technique, but I found Crockford's presentation of it really difficult to wrap my head around. I think he muddles the technique with his own strong opinions around dynamic types and prototypes. In particular: > Another explanation is that his technique is most effective when used in a dynamic, functional programming language. Its use in a static, procedural language would be considerably more difficult. I've implemented Pratt parsers in Java, C#, C++, Dart, and C, and I've never found them difficult to express in any of those languages. If you'd like a different treatment of the technique, I wrote a blog post about them using Java: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-expression-parsing-made-easy/ http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-e... And a chapter in my book using C: http://craftinginterpreters.com/compiling-expressions.html http://craftinginterpreters.com/compiling-expressions.html