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Glossary Term

Recursive Descent

A top-down parsing technique where each grammar rule becomes a function that may call other rule functions recursively.

Clang, GCC, V8, Go, and Rust all parse with hand-written recursive descent because it gives precise error recovery and is easy to maintain.

Related Terms

Abstract Syntax Tree Parser

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