Interesting read. Thank you for sharing. I always found parsers fascinating and mystical. It seems like these parser functions (which i think are analogous to w

Interesting read. Thank you for sharing. I always found parsers fascinating and mystical. It seems like these parser functions (which i think are analogous to what Rob Pike calls state functions) are a common way to do parsing, though i know very little about it. I especially found the combinators intriguing, though I don't care much for the functional programming syntax in a language like Go. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Tangentially, I wrote a little mini parser [0] of my own for my side project. It is inspired by Rob Pike's talk on parsers [1]. It doesn't use state functions, but instead just uses the call stack to keep track of where we are. [0] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/blob/main/server/actions.go#L86 https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/blob/main/server/actio... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE and https://go.dev/src/text/template/parse/lex.go https://go.dev/src/text/template/parse/lex.go