On 6 August 2010 18:59, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
In short, the current "parser" is a bad example of how to write a parser,
I forgot to call it "a box of pure malevolent evil, a purveyor of insidious insanity, an eldritch manifestation that would make Bill Gates let out a low whistle of admiration," but it's all those, too.
but it does work. I have found that studying how it works is far less useful than observing what it does in practice and reverse engineering it with more scalable and flexible parsing techniques in mind.
Dude, if you've got what you've described here, you may in fact be a genius.
- d.