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		pharmakom on Oct 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Incremental Parsing in Go > a successful parse consumes at least one rune This avoids infinite loops?

Jtsummers on Oct 22, 2022 [–]

Yes, there would be two outcomes for an attempted parsing. Either it succeeds and makes progress (and eventually terminates) or it fails and consumes nothing (and terminates because eventually you run out of parsers to try).

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