Differences from parse
randallpittman opened this issue · comments
Hi! Great library. Seems quite similar to parse - are you familiar with that one? If so, what would you say differentiates the two?
Oh wow, did not know that one! Looks a bit more complicated, but very similar in some cases. I'll look into it and thank your for the hint!
Some differences I found.
simplematch
- returns dict directly instead of
<Result>classes - simpler, more readable syntax (ymmv)
- less specific parsing functionality (misses some features like matching ints of specific length)
- has uncaptured wildcards
- less code
- I'll guess it's faster. But I'd have to prove that.
- global type registration
I somehow missed parse completely when I was developing this. So if you need some of the advanced functionality it looks like a great option. I think simplematch is a bit more intuitive to use, but I'm biased of course 😅