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amluto 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

Better not use popular toolchains then:

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/New_C_Parser

https://clang.llvm.org/features.html

I think this is a quite popular approach for multiple reasons. That being said, tree sitter uses GLR.

fatih-erikli-cg 5 months ago [–]

There is no recursion involved in parsing. You keep a stack for the tree.

bonzini 5 months ago | [–]

Recursive descent uses the processor stack as the parsing stack.

fatih-erikli-cg 5 months ago | | [–]

Recursion is mostly involved in interpreter, and most of the time it is a bad practice. No recursion needed in parser.

bonzini 5 months ago | | [–]

Dunning-Krueger effect at its best, I am done arguing.

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