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| Paper: Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations johnl@taugh.com (John R Levine) (2025-08-26) |
| Re: Paper: Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com (Derek) (2025-08-28) |
| From: | Derek <derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:36:38 +0100 |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| References: | 25-08-018 |
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| Keywords: | parse, errors |
| Posted-Date: | 28 Aug 2025 17:57:23 EDT |
| In-Reply-To: | 25-08-018 |
John,
> This paper proposes a code editor and parser using obligations, a term I
> had not seen before and they do not define, but appears to mean
It looks like they are making terms up to make the work sound
dramatic, e.g., panicking parser.
> pseudo-tokens that require other tokens later to make them valid. They seem to
> do better at recovering from syntax errors than other schemes do.
No mention of trial parsing, which has been around since
the 1960s.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16848
Nothing to see here. This is just a mathematical orgasm paper.
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