English Explanatory Dictionary

recursive descent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of top-down parsing involving a set of mutually recursive procedures, each of which implements one of the non-terminals of the grammar, so that the structure of the parser program closely mirrors that of the grammar.

Word forms

recursive descent

Related words

predictive parser
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