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GeneralI am beating this thing! Pin
honey the codewitch1-Dec-19 21:15
mvahoney the codewitch1-Dec-19 21:15 
So distinguishing between a cast expression and a standard parenthesized subexpression in C# requires backtracking!

I whipped up a backtracking IEnumerator<T> class, ironed out the kinks with that, and then stuck that under my input to incorporate backtracking it into my parse. Whammo, now it can handle these stupid expressions, and any future backtracking requirements that crop up.

I now have a backtracking hand rolled recursive descent parser a lot like what C# uses (aside from the research compiler that was GLR based)

C#'s language structure looks deceptively clean. There's a reason it requires very modern parser and compiler technology to operate though. The grammar itself is very ambiguous. It doesn't seem like it is. It's not Perl after all, but it is actually pretty damned hard to parse without type information.

I'm using a similar approach that Microsoft's GLR C# research parser project took, and basically coding in possible alternate structures so when i parse, the parse tree i get back can reflect all of those multiple different possible constructs, but my mechanism is more hard coded and rudimentary than theirs was. Fortunately there's a limited number of cases where this has to happen.

Either way, I'm proud of what I've managed to pull off so far. This is turning out to be pretty cool.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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honey the codewitch1-Dec-19 21:39
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GeneralIt is a hint? Pin
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter1-Dec-19 18:35
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Amarnath S1-Dec-19 18:44
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the goat in your machine1-Dec-19 19:22
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Jörgen Andersson1-Dec-19 19:54
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter1-Dec-19 20:00
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GeneralSome coding style weirdness, Is and Has Pin
honey the codewitch1-Dec-19 14:59
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Ravi Bhavnani1-Dec-19 16:14
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Super Lloyd1-Dec-19 18:15
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