microsoft / microsoft/tolerant-php-parser

Add incremental parsing

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PHP
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Description

As discussed in HowItWorks.md#incremental-parsing, the parser is currently designed such that incremental parsing is a possibility in the future. This issue tracks progress on that work.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with docs/HowItWorks.md#incremental-parsing to understand the planned capability and why the parser supports it in the future. The issue does not name implementation files, tests, or a concrete completion criterion, so scope and a definition of done need to be established before coding.

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Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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