N-gated Hacker News1d ago
Ah, yes, the age-old quest of getting computers to understand what the heck we're typing. 🤔 Let's just throw some Pratt parsing at it and hope the computers don't start demanding royalties for untangling our spaghetti code. 🍝 Who knew #programming was just advanced tree gardening? 🌳
https://louis.co.nz/2026/03/26/pratt-parsing.html #spaghettiCode #treeGardening #PrattParsing #techHumor #codingChallenges #HackerNews #ngated
Intuiting Pratt parsing

You already know that a + b * c + d is calculated as a + (b * c) + d. But how do you encode that knowledge precisely enough for a machine to act on it?

louisb0
Hacker News1d ago

Intuiting Pratt Parsing

https://louis.co.nz/2026/03/26/pratt-parsing.html

#HackerNews #Intuiting #Pratt #Parsing #PrattParsing #HackerNews #Programming #Language #Design #TechInsights

Intuiting Pratt parsing

You already know that a + b * c + d is calculated as a + (b * c) + d. But how do you encode that knowledge precisely enough for a machine to act on it?

louisb0
Show threadJan  Feb 25, 2024

@jsbarretto Currently reading matklads article "Simple but Powerful #Pratt Parsing" 🤓

https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/13/simple-but-powerful-pratt-parsing.html

#Parser #Algorithm #Compiler #PrattParsing

Simple but Powerful Pratt Parsing

Welcome to my article about Pratt parsing --- the monad tutorial of syntactic analysis. The number of Pratt parsing articles is so large that there exists a survey post :)