On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 11:45:04 UTC+11, Jeffrey Kegler wrote:
>
>   > Marpa: The foundation of modern, grammar-based, parsers  
>
>  
>
>> Thanks, I've been looking for another tagline. I don't really like the 
>> way that that is phrased though, perhaps something like "Marpa: A 
>> modern parser" would sound better. 
>
>
> I'd love to see the suggested title become prophetic, but those who have 
> followed parsing have seen many excessive claims, and are now cynical.  
> I'll leave it it to flaviu to pick the wording he's most comfortable with 
> -- it's a tough call.  If flaviu goes with what sounds right to his ear, 
> that is probably as good a criterion as any.
>

My site, I choose. His site, he chooses.
 

>  Note 1: The '||' indicates alternative ways of constructing an 
>> expression. 
>
>
> Actually, '||' indicates a change of precedence, while '|' indicates two 
> alternatives at the same level of precedence.  "Precedence" is the same 
> concept described in the perlop man page 
> <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html>.  It might be best to simply leave 
> this unexplained in the example, if it is not trying to be a tutorial.  
> Those who know about these things will see what is happening without 
> explanation.  Those who don't will find out when they follow up by reading 
> the introductory tutorials.
>

Yes, true. I could argue that my expression is not actually wrong, but of 
course a clear explanation would take quite a few words.

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