> Parsers should be fail-fast and deterministic Raise your hackles about the choice not to fail fast if you want, but when they fail, they do fail deterministi

> Parsers should be fail-fast and deterministic Raise your hackles about the choice not to fail fast if you want, but when they fail, they do fail deterministically. It's a too-common myth that they don't. (A little perverse that people who make a big deal out of others unable to follow spec, but by doing so prove they haven't checked what the spec says—because if they did, they'd know this...)