Imagine comparing diffs of a verbose parser vs diff between two complex regexes. The parser one could be 10x larger or even more, but it'd have a tractable diff

Imagine comparing diffs of a verbose parser vs diff between two complex regexes. The parser one could be 10x larger or even more, but it'd have a tractable diff. In the regex case I'd have to mentally keep track of column numbers and a bunch of other things.