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Useless if the messages are intended for a human who is going to use the feedback to manually adjust something (for example, parsing a programming language and telling the user what they did wrong)

If your parser is parsing something machine-generated where the expected case is success, and failure indicates data corruption/malicious input/a bug somewhere else, then parser generators can be useful.




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