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== Precedence climbing method ==
The precedence climbing method is a compact, efficient, and flexible algorithm for parsing expressions that was first described by Martin Richards and Colin Whitby-StevensStrevens.<ref name="Richards1979">{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Martin |last2=Whitby-StevensStrevens |first2=Colin |title=BCPL — the language and its compiler |year=1979 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521219655}}</ref>
 
An infix-notation expression grammar in [[EBNF]] format will usually look like this: