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Comment by PhilipRoman

4 months ago

Good to know I wasn't alone in writing terrible expression parsers. Since I knew absolutely nothing about parsing, my parser/interpreter consisted of splitting on whitespace, followed by linear scanning to find the most high precedence operation, repeated until a single token remains (basically how a human would do it).

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