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Differentiating Parsers

• viraptor 17y ago
  If someone's interested in this, there's also a really good related paper on functional incremental parsing: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bernardy/FunctionalIncrementalParsing.pdf http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bernardy/FunctionalIncrementalPa... This method is used in Yi editor to implement a parser / highlighter which does real parsing, but doesn't require reading the whole file (and can be restarted at some arbitrary point after modifications).
• selven 17y ago
  Maybe I'm not in the target audience, but I find the article incredibly confusing. Parts of it literally feel like something out of SCIgen.
  • viraptor 17y ago
    That kind of text seems to be common with people who do "serious stuff" in functional languages. Ah well - they simply know what's going on and can use theoretical concepts. But this link isn't that bad... It could be better though if they did a `s/parser/lexer/` on that article (even if lexer is a "flat parser" - just to reduce confusion)