Ferreteria/v0.6/sys/Parsing/v1

Ferreteria: Parsing system v1 (obsolete)

About

The parsing system is built on a collection of relatively simple ideas, but keeping them organized so they work well together gets complicated quickly.

Terminology

• Cell: has a Strand, an Enzyme, and a Lookup -- equivalent to old "Template"
• Enzyme: breaks a string up into objects that fully represent each section
  • returns a Parsing/aux/Nucleus
    • ...which contains zero or more Parsing/aux/Codons
• Lookup: transforms input values into output, typically via a lookup array
• Strand: a string formatted in a way that the Enzyme knows how to segment/objectify

Thinking

• A codon is a fixed-length segment of a DNA strand.
  • I first thought of using "gene" for segment-collections, but the analogy seemed only vaguely applicable and the word "gene" gets a bit overused as a metaphor.
• An enzyme and a ribosome are both molecular machines that handle DNA segments like data (enzymes copy, ribosomes link pieces together).
• A cell's nucleus contains most of its DNA, so that seemed a reasonable name for a collection of codons. (Maybe I should have just called it "codons"...)

I couldn't think of a good DNA metaphor for Lookups...