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Re: Paper: Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations

From Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: Paper: Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations
Date 2025-08-28 22:36 +0100
Organization Compilers Central
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John,

> This paper proposes a code editor and parser using obligations, a term I
> had not seen before and they do not define, but appears to mean

It looks like they are making terms up to make the work sound
dramatic, e.g., panicking parser.

> pseudo-tokens that require other tokens later to make them valid.  They seem to
> do better at recovering from syntax errors than other schemes do.

No mention of trial parsing, which has been around since
the 1960s.

> https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16848

Nothing to see here.  This is just a mathematical orgasm paper.

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Paper: Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-08-26 15:43 -0400
  Re: Paper: Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com> - 2025-08-28 22:36 +0100

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