Comment by tylerhou
6 years ago
Some other random feedback: the short phrase makes me think that I should parse instead of validating. Might I suggest: "Don't just validate: parse"?
6 years ago
Some other random feedback: the short phrase makes me think that I should parse instead of validating. Might I suggest: "Don't just validate: parse"?
The idea really is that parsing subsumes validation. If you’re parsing, you don’t have to validate, because validation is a natural side-effect of the parsing process. And indeed, I think that’s the very thesis of the blog post: parsing is validation, just without throwing away all the information you learned once you’ve finished!
I understood the article, and I see your point, but my main feedback is that when I read the title I assumed that you were going to describe some way where you would parse input without validating it.
FWIW, I don’t read that implication in the title.
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