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| Date | Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:31:39 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: Scanning versus Parsing |
| From | Ian van Breda <igvb@btopenworld.com> |
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| Thread-Topic | Scanning versus Parsing |
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in article Albert van der Horst at wrote on 06/08/2013 11:28: > In article <CE216AB0.36B5%igvb@btopenworld.com>, > Ian van Breda <igvb@btopenworld.com> wrote: >> The terms 'parse' and 'parsing' are widely use in the documentation on >> both in the original ANS Standard of 1994, [1], and in the draft >> Proposal, [2]. >> >> However, the term 'parsing', in both the treatment of natural language >> and the theory of computer languages, implies analysis of the structure >> of a sentence or language construct. In computing it refers to checking >> that the tokens extracted from the source code of a program follow the >> grammatical rules of the language [3] and [4]. There are many examples >> in the literature. > > According to this definition there is no parsing in Forth. > Blame us for using the term parsing for the nearest thing. >> >> It would have been less confusing if the standards committee had used scanning instead of parsing.
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Scanning versus Parsing Ian van Breda <igvb@btopenworld.com> - 2013-08-02 13:54 +0100
Re: Scanning versus Parsing Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-08-02 09:14 -0500
Re: Scanning versus Parsing Ian van Breda <igvb@btopenworld.com> - 2013-08-06 09:24 +0100
Re: Scanning versus Parsing anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-08-02 15:25 +0000
Re: Scanning versus Parsing albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-08-06 10:28 +0000
Re: Scanning versus Parsing Ian van Breda <igvb@btopenworld.com> - 2013-08-06 14:31 +0100
Re: Scanning versus Parsing albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-08-06 17:47 +0000
Re: Scanning versus Parsing Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 19:20 +0200
Re: Scanning versus Parsing Ian van Breda <igvb@btopenworld.com> - 2013-08-15 11:07 +0100
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