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Ignoring the numerous correctness issues people have pointed out, parsing .ini simply isn't interesting as a thing to parse. In the sense that more or less any
by olliej 3y ago
Ignoring the numerous correctness issues people have pointed out, parsing .ini simply isn't interesting as a thing to parse. In the sense that more or less any real data/source that you have to parse is more complex and structure than an ini so any "lesson" from parsing ini is inapplicable to anything else.
- inimino 3y ago"Any more or less real programming language is more complex than an arithmetic expression language with only four operations so any 'lessons' from such a simple example is inapplicable to anything else."
- olliej 3y agoThe point is that this article says it wants to introduce parsing. But parsing a language that can be parsed by string splitting is not meaningful. If there isn't even the most basic complexity then it's hardly worth claiming you're introducing parsing.
- inimino 3y agoIt also says it's LL(1) recursive descent, so you should already know what that includes.