On 6 August 2010 18:59, Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)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.