3 ms·
And yet all the implementations are actually just functional recursion, in practice, no?
by platz 6y ago
And yet all the implementations are actually just functional recursion, in practice, no?
- chowells 6y agoYes, but that isn't saying much. It's basically the same as saying "they're all assembly instructions when they're sent to the CPU". Functional recursion is just looping. "Recursive Descent" is a very specific parsing algorithm.
- platz 6y agothen you'd also claim that a parser generator grammer could also be implemented with functional recursion. so what is the value of the original claim though?
- chowells 6y agoThe original question was about "recursive descent". You keep talking about "functional recursion". These are not the same words, nor do they mean the same thing. I do not understand your underlying question, or what point you might be trying to make if the question is intended to be rhetorical.