Parsing Expressions, TDD, and the Big Why
So, for those following along, the other day I had to decide whether to roll my own parser for boolean expressions involving tags, like "(stinky & doofus) | (ugly)". Very standard stuff. In the end, I rolled my own, and I have to tell you, I just had a really wonderful time. A parser for strings is an absolutely awesome place to do TDD. They’re just strings. No clever fakes, no extract & override, nothing. Just strings. I hadn’t done …