On Mar 20, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Tim Goodwin wrote:
> So my question still stands: can anybody show me a PEG that - for a
> backtracking recursive descent parser - would be more complex than
> O(n) to parse? Despite all the discussion of exponential complexity in
> this post, that's not necessary: a mere O(n^2) would be great!

Try:

S <- A*
A <- a S b / a S c / a

on a string consisting of all a's.  A little contrived admittedly. :)

Bryan

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