Talk:Tail recursive parser

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I can find very little web information on this subject, I hope someone finds it useful. I find it to be an interesting parsing method that is not discussed as much. I used it for a science fair project, and the result turned out quite nice, and pretty simple.

Okay, I changed this page to be a little less overly complex. Thanks to ard on #dhell of dynamichell.org for helping me with the sentences.

[edit] Merge into recursive descent parser

I don't see any reason for this to be it's own article. This is a common optimization that the dragon book doesn't bother to give a distinct name. Even the recursive descent parser article's implementation uses this technique. I don't see anything interesting in the Dr. Dobb's article that isn't already covered in the dragon book. 15.227.137.69 21:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is a common technique

Which is the reason for the repetition in the EBNF notation in the first place.