Introducing The Hackable Usermode PARSE ("UPARSE")

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Very nice. This looks to be an excellent direction.

Things I suggest should be supported if not already:

  1. An ability to return a parse tree result (terms matched + segments matched). This is fabulous for data extraction formed into a structured result.

  2. An ability to return the furthest input point matched and the rule that caused rollback from there on parse failure. During development of rules this generally indicates the rule that is not properly specified.

  3. Maybe uparse can provide some user evaluation context services passed through to the user actions, so that once parse has finished successfully, your result could be the evaluation of the parse tree whatever that means in your application, without having to code all that context tracking yourself. I'm unsure about this, because if you have #1 in a decent form maybe that's all you need. Still having access to things uparse keeps track of, like the successful branch of terms you're currently on, maybe useful.

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