The readline based UI sweetspot
Use readline and a simple recursive descent parser to make powerful personal tools with nice UI.
readline based UI sweetspot Use readline and a simple recursive descent parser to make powerful personal tools with nice UI.
Following my introduction to fnparse, this article looks at how more common functional programming tools can be leveraged to make parsers that output new parsers.
fnparse Parser combinators are a powerful way of expressing complex parsers as first class operations in a language with first class functions. This tutorial introduces one such library, fnparse, for Clojure.