I am not convinced that typing more delimiter characters is a better thing.
The string representation is ... shorter and less error prone.

As Mark said, a string isolates you from the reader which could change 
its behavior over time introducing other undesirable side effects like {}
with an uneven # of args.

Thank you for this parser Mark, it's just in time, I have a need for this that
came to life a week ago :) Will definitively try this in the next month or so. 

Luc P.


> Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> > Example:
> >
> > (def as-and-bs
> >   (parser
> >     "S = AB*
> >      AB = A B
> >      A = 'a'+
> >      B = 'b'+"))
> 
> Nice, but providing the grammar as a plain string looks somewhat
> unnatural to me.  Why not something like this (parser being a macro)?
> 
> (def as-and-bs
>   (parser
>     S  = AB* .
>     AB = A B .
>     A  = "a" + .
>     B  = "b" + .))
> 
> I.e., symbols denote non-terminals, strings denote terminals, and the
> dot indicates the end of a rule.
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> 
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