Sunday, December 05, 2010

OT + Grammar = New way of defining languages?

Operational transformation is a way of defining documents via the series of steps required to create the document - among many other things.
Language grammars are usually defined by rules on how to recognize a document once its created.

What if the latter was done in the former's style?

Need to think this through but if the rule set is not prohibitively large this would be a nice way to achieve incremental parsing, not to mention the ability to have "islands of known information" mixed with WIP unknown fragments, methinks

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