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		lioeters on Sept 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Handwritten Math Parser in 100 lines of Python I believe he was talking about Pratt parsing in the video. Top Down Operator Precedence - Vaughan R. Pratt - https://tdop.github.io/ What he called "priority" is called "binding power" in the paper.

Leszek on Sept 18, 2020 [–]

I like Jonathan Blow and all, but he should be careful with trashing academic parsing theory if he thinks that Pratt parsing was only discovered "in the last few years".

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