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Pratt parsing is a black box

Hacker News | Nov 3, 2026 | ibobev

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In contrast Pratt parsing registers semantic actions to the terminals themselves instead. Pratt can't be used for incremental parsing as done in GLR parsing. Lessons learned from Pratt macros are lessons learned on Pratt parsing itself.

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