reparse

verb, noun — 2 senses

reparse

verb

/ɹiːˈpɑː(ɹ)s/

Etymology From re- + parse.

1

To parse again.

reparse

noun

Etymology From re- + parse.

1

The act of parsing again.

  • Due to the possibility that a reparse may be necessary, it is crucial that the parsing of a command should avoid any irrevocable alteration in the state of the data structures until the command is confirmed.1981, Ralph E. Gorin, Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20: Assembly Language Programming:
  • In the case of less vicious examples, the alternate parse may be readily available as a parallel hypothesis, but in the vicious example cited above, a reparse is started with a different set of expectations for the syntactic role of what is being parsed.2012, David M. W. Powers, Christopher C. R. Turk, Machine Learning of Natural Language, page 236:
Derived terms
reparse point

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