Top-down parser classification
问题 I've watched this course by Alex Aiken and read through many other resources. But I'm struggling to find clear classification of top-down parsers. This document doesn't provide a clear classification either but at least gives some definitions I'll use in the post. So here is the classification I've come up so far: Backtracking VS Predictive Backtracking One solution to parsing would be to implement backtracking. Based on the information the parser currently has about the input, a decision is