recursive descent parser (redirected from Recursive-descent parsers)

(grammar)

recursive descent parser - A "top-down" parser built from a set of mutually-recursive procedures or a non-recursive equivalent where each such procedure usually implements one of the productions of the grammar. Thus the structure of the resulting program closely mirrors that of the grammar it recognises. ["Recursive Programming Techniques", W.H. Burge, 1975, ISBN 0-201-14450-6].