Meanings
present singular third person reparses · participle present reparsing · participle past reparsed · past reparsed
- transitiveTo parse again.
plural reparses
- 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 Programming1 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishparse
- Englishreparse
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