On Saturday, 24 June 2023 at 16:42:45 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
On Saturday, 24 June 2023 at 15:12:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
[...]
Yeah, it would take me forever to get my head around that, and
I only want a crude toy partial parser for certain portions of
the grammar, and the parsing code is done now. A hand-written
recursive descent type thing mainly dealing with things like
comments and literal string that have to be taken account of as
they prevent hazards to naive straight string searching for
what you want to find, as comments and eg double-quoted strings
could have things in them that are red-herrings or the things
that you want to find items in, depending on circumstances.
[...]
I read an article about just that good strings trick many many
years back, and the author called it ‘a string universe’, which I
really liked.
