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Designing a parser/builder combo (Score:2)

by autarch (914)

I think it should probably look something like this:

- Parser module - has a base set of things it can parse plus some sort of registration method(s) to add new parseable things. Presumably the registering code provides a regex and an event name. This would probably be implemented by sublcassing.

- When a match is encountered, the parser just generates an event describing the match. This event is passed on to the output generator(s), which do whatever they want with it.

This nicely separates parsing from ou

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