From: DrDiettrich1@netscape.net   
      
   Am 09.03.2019 um 07:47 schrieb mertesthomas@gmail.com:   
      
   > For parsing I don't think that pattern matching leads to correct   
   > results in all cases. I have seen too much buggy attempts to do   
   > parsing with pattern matching. Even for such simple things as   
   > lines with key=value I saw "solutions" with pattern matching, that   
   > triggered bugs when the line was not simple. A good approach for   
   > parsing is LL(1), which has nothing to do with pattern matching.   
      
   IMO bottom-up parsers (LR) do pattern matching, in contrast to top-down   
   parsers (LL). Where bottom-up parsers can suffer from shift/reduce   
   conflicts.   
      
   DoDi   
      
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