Mirror: The magical sticky regex-based parser generator 🧙
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Furthermore, interpolations don't have to just be RegHex matchers. They can
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also be functions returning matchers or completely custom matching functions.
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This is useful when your DSL becomes _self-referential_, i.e. when one matchers
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start referencing each other forming a loop. To fix this we can create a
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function that returns our root matcher:
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import match from 'reghex';
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const value = match('value')`
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(${/\w+/} | ${() => root})+
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const root = match('root')`
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${/root/}+ ${value}
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### Regex-like DSL
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We've seen in the previous examples that matchers are authored using tagged