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Are separate parsing and lexing passes good practice with parser combinators?
When I began to use parser combinators my first reaction was a sense of liberation from what felt like an artificial distinction between parsing and lexing. All of a sudden everything was just ...
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Parser combinator that looks like BNF
Is it possible to construct a parser combinator library that reads like a BNF grammar? I don't know of any, so I started wondering if there are reasons it's impossible or undesirable to do so. It ...
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How are line/column position data dealt with in parser combinator libraries?
I'm building a parser using a parser combinator library. I need to keep track of where AST nodes started and ended in the textual input -- line and column numbers.
How is this problem approached ...
