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4 months ago

An image of a railroad syntax diagram. It contains a single self-recursive definition, a JSON value. The diagram consists of a series of branching lines which fan out into many different paths, some which loop back on themselves, and then finally coalesce into a single end path on the right of the image. Several of the paths contain labels such as character that appear in the JSON grammar.

The combinator pattern is extremely cool case study #5371:

Here's an entirely automatically generated railroad syntax diagram for the JSON parser example that comes with my parser combinator library Chumsky (https://github.com/zesterer/chumsky/

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