Parse or Pass?

frenchy64 ilikecandy7 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 10:56:29 EDT 2007


> In general, "parsing" is analyzing the grammatical structure of a
> string. People sometimes talk loosely about "parsing the command line".
> but I don't think that's normally applied to providing the actual
> arguments (corresponding to the definition's "formal parameters") when a
> function is called - that's argument passing.
>
> regards
>   Steve
Thanks Steve, great post!




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