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chrisseaton
on July 31, 2022
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Carbon’s most exciting feature is its calling conv...
> Do you really want your language to be defined by a particular imperative parser implementation?
Yes please. The code defines completely and unambiguously how the language is parsed.
ithkuil
on July 31, 2022
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If the code only handled parsing the grammar, I'd be with you, but more than half of a parser deals with what to do with what you just parsed which may be quite different between the various implementations of the grammar
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Yes please. The code defines completely and unambiguously how the language is parsed.