On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Perhaps I should implement error recovery, so that ill-formed prefs won't
>> cause subsequent prefs to be lost.
>>
>
> You mean pick up parsing again after hitting an error?   That sounds
> complicated...
>

It shouldn't be too hard, because the prefs grammar is very simple. I would
just implement "panic mode" recovery, which scans for a synchronizing token
like ';' or 'pref' and then continues from there. It's not foolproof but
works well in many cases.

Nick
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