PARSER-what is that?

[Guest_imported]

Hi
I came to Directives chapter and this parser and parse word keeps appearing.Here are two examples

---Assembly directive links an assembly to application or page at PARSE-TIME

or

---Page directive is used to define attributes for the page PARSER and compiler specific to the page(.aspx)file

Can someone tell me what word parse(r) means in each of two examples?

Thanks

 

[christheprogrammer]

A parser reads code that was written by someone and places it into some data structure (by following the rules of the language as laid out in a language grammar) so that the machine code generator can generate code from it. It is part of the compiler.

The examples you posted just say that certain statements in code apply directly to the parser, by telling it where to look for things, etc.. Nothing really to worry about, as long as you follow the language specs.

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