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[Thomas Schilling]

> I wouldn't think a recursive descent parser could be used for anything
> serious, though you said LL(k) rather than LL(1) which should make it
> powerful enough. But it's still less capable than LR(k), no? Nah, I just
woke
> up, not in my parsing theory mood.

The problem with LL(1) is that it forbids left recursion. So using LL(1)
would complicate our grammar. And I already wrote some
top-down-parser (I mean, I started to write one) until I found that
I needed k > 1 (better: k >> 1). That would be very inefficient.

- Thomas