Well, I finally ran into a Python Unicode problem, sort of
BartC
bc at freeuk.com
Mon Jul 4 06:26:27 EDT 2016
On 04/07/2016 02:15, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 12:40:14 PM UTC+12, BartC wrote:
>> The structure of such a parser doesn't need to exactly match the grammar
>> with a dedicated block of code for each operator precedence. It can be
>> table-driven so that an operator precedence value is just an attribute.
>
> Of course. But that’s not a recursive-descent parser any more.
>
All the parsers I write work the same way. If I can't describe them as
recursive descent, then I don't know what they are.
This is just recognising that a bunch of specialised functions that are
very similar can be reduced to one or two more generalised ones.
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bartc
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