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> Parsing Is Not a Science It can and should be, though. I feel like we should have a separate word for parsing when the rules are not well-defined - something
by Retr0id 2y ago
> Parsing Is Not a Science
It can and should be, though. I feel like we should have a separate word for parsing when the rules are not well-defined - something like "fuzzy parsing" (in a similar vein to fuzzy string comparison)
- eyelidlessness 2y agoRenaming the problem doesn’t make it go away. It might be useful for identifying the subset of parsing which is problematic, but I think the article already achieves this well by specifying the subset of input under discussion.
- Retr0id 2y agoIt doesn't make the problem go away, but it makes it clear that parsing itself is not the problem
- pwdisswordfishz 2y agoIt's "scraping".
- xigoi 2y agoIt’s called “guessing”.