[k4st]

I have used TDOP and made variations of it before (e.g. combining TDOP and PEG, as well as introducing a form sub-grammars, like what you get with CFGs). I could also see the similarity between TDOP and left corner parsing, which gave me a better grounding on it.

Still never really felt like I deeply understood it. I think there was some intuitive leap I just wasn't making. A lot of it had to do with the choice of left/right binding powers, and loop that does the comparison and chooses whether to keep extending or to "dive down" into a new sub-tree.

Perhaps if there was a slightly different formulation, or something that was just a plain obvious description or methodology for getting the numbers right I would finally get it.