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  RecDescent incrementally generates top-down recursive-descent text
  parsers from simple yacc-like grammar specifications. It provides:

        * Regular expressions or literal strings as terminals (tokens)
        * Multiple (non-contiguous) productions for any rule
        * Repeated, optional and alternate subrules within productions
        * Late-bound (run-time dispatched) subrules
        * Full access to Perl within actions specified as part of the grammar
        * Simple automated error reporting during generation and parsing
        * The ability to commit to, uncommit to, or reject particular
          productions during a parse
        * Incremental extension of the parsing grammar (even during a parse)
        * The ability to retrieve the generated parsing code.