They are not really similar. Derivatives are a method for implementing regular expressions. The Dwight-Marais parser is IIRC essentially regular expressions with backtracking.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Are the ideas behind marpa at all related to the "differentiation" > described in http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/? My > surface understanding of Earley Sets is as something similar, but with > match-beginning metadata for ?performance? and more affordance for > ambiguity. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "marpa parser" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
