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A parser for Things

is a function from Strings

to lists of pairs of Strings and Things.

It is refreshing to read something not LLM. And in such high quality.

Agreed. In the beginning I was worried I was reading something written by a LLM, but then halfway through I realized it was still coherent and really enjoyed it.

I found this to be a very accessible way to think about parsing a language that back-tracks naturally.

I wonder how this technique would interact with an Earley parsing approach that gives all possible parses in parallel.

I’m trying to imagine this with a set of rules or with dynamic runtime evaluation of what is being parsed.

Here's a fun, related paper by Okasaki:

Even higher-order functions for parsing or Why would anyone ever want to use a sixth-order function? [1]

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

This person was teaching compiler courses and didn’t know what a parser combinator is?

Interesting. I wish it covered error handling.

Now You Have Three Problems – A Story about Parsing