On 6 August 2010 18:59, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> wrote:

> In short, the current "parser" is a bad example of how to write a
> parser,


I forgot to call it "a box of pure malevolent evil, a purveyor of
insidious insanity, an eldritch manifestation that would make Bill
Gates let out a low whistle of admiration," but it's all those, too.


> but it does work. I have found that studying how it works is far
> less useful than observing what it does in practice and reverse
> engineering it with more scalable and flexible parsing techniques in mind.


Dude, if you've got what you've described here, you may in fact be a genius.


-  d.

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