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Re: Make peg.el a built-in library?
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: Make peg.el a built-in library? |
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Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:52:38 -0700 |
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On 09/27/21 18:34 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
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> What is a PEG?
A Parsing Expression Grammar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar
Basically a way of composing a parser out of smaller regexp-like
expressions. They can be very useful in a wide variety of situations.