1
2 sparse (spärs), adj,., spars-er, spars-est.
3 1. thinly scattered or distributed; "a sparse population"
4 2. thin; not thick or dense: "sparse hair"
5 3. scanty; meager.
6 4. semantic parse
7 [ from Latin: spars(us) scattered, past participle of
8 spargere 'to sparge' ]
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10 Antonym: abundant
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12 Sparse is a semantic parser of source files: it's neither a compiler
13 (although it could be used as a front-end for one) nor is it a
14 preprocessor (although it contains as a part of it a preprocessing
15 phase).
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17 It is meant to be a small - and simple - library. Scanty and meager,
18 and partly because of that easy to use. It has one mission in life:
19 create a semantic parse tree for some arbitrary user for further
20 analysis. It's not a tokenizer, nor is it some generic context-free
21 parser. In fact, context (semantics) is what it's all about - figuring
22 out not just what the grouping of tokens are, but what the _types_ are
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1
2 sparse (spärs), adj,., spars-er, spars-est.
3 1. thinly scattered or distributed; "a sparse population"
4 2. thin; not thick or dense: "sparse hair"
5 3. scanty; meager.
6 4. semantic parse
7 [ from Latin: spars(us) scattered, past participle of
8 spargere 'to sparge' ]
9
10 Antonym: abundant
11
12 Sparse is a semantic parser of source files: it's neither a compiler
13 (although it could be used as a front-end for one) nor is it a
14 preprocessor (although it contains as a part of it a preprocessing
15 phase).
16
17 It is meant to be a small - and simple - library. Scanty and meager,
18 and partly because of that easy to use. It has one mission in life:
19 create a semantic parse tree for some arbitrary user for further
20 analysis. It's not a tokenizer, nor is it some generic context-free
21 parser. In fact, context (semantics) is what it's all about - figuring
22 out not just what the grouping of tokens are, but what the _types_ are
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