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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Encaspulation: What to export
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 21:57:46 +0200
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On 2017-11-29 19:46, Victor Porton wrote:
> 
>> I do use the word "parsing" because it uses techniques very similar to
>> text parsing, namely I use recursive descent.
> 
> The commonly used term for what you do is "depth-first tree traversal".

Tree traversal is not the same as recursive descent. For example recursive 
descent may analyze the same fragment of a tree more than once or it may 
skip some parts of the tree entirely.

However, I advise to stop arguing about used terms, as it is an offtopic 
here and there is no utility in this discussion.

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org