Re: X3: Alternative operator doesn't reduce?

On 7/11/20 11:16 AM, Michael Powell wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:12 PM sehe <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>      > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 5:38 PM Aaron Graham <[email protected]
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>      > I've written a lot of very complicated qi parsers and I don't remember ever
>      > running across this problem. It's possible it just never came up, but I
>      > doubt it.
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>     I've written a ton of parsers, and yeah this never came up before X3.
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>     I think it didn't use to come up with X3 until some of the fixes
>     related to single-element sequence handling but I can't prove it. And
>     yeah, it's obnoxious because simple string productions often don't work.
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>     I don't have many examples handy because I basically stopped caring, I
>     have learned to work around things, but it is one of the reasons I
>     stick with Qi in production.
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> Sounds legit to me. I concur. Have never had a problem with Qi. Tried, true, proven.
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> Although, it does beggar the question, will X3 ever be ready for prime time?

Very good question. I suggest filing a github issue, at the very least. Hopefully
Nikita can pick it up. He's the one doing the single-element sequence "fixes".
Alas, I do not have enough bandwidth :(

Regards,
-- 
Joel