Re: Res: lpeg and left recursion

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Sérgio Medeiros wrote:

> > Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by no clear?  Is it
> > ambiguous?  Ad hoc? ...?
>
> The author argues the approach works by showing some
> examples. He does not give a precise semantics, just some
> algorithms that appear to work.
>
> I would say it is a somewhat ad hoc approach.

It also seems rather tied to packrat parsers, so it isn't clear if/how it
could be adapted to other implementation techniques.

Tony.
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