A thoughtful introduction to the pest parser

Comments

Non-doc comments

Comments follow the general Rust style of line (//) and block (/* ... */) comment forms. Non-doc comments are interpreted as a form of whitespace.

/* 
  Block comment
 */
another_rule = {        // line comment
    ...                 // whitespace goes anywhere
}

Doc comments

Line doc comments begin with exactly three slashes /// and //! is used to document the entire grammar file.

//! A parser for JSON file.

json = { ... }

/// Matches object, e.g.: `{ "foo": "bar" }`
object = { ... }

Then will get

/// A parser for JSON file.
enum Rule {
    json,
    /// Matches object, e.g.: `{ "foo": "bar" }`
    object,
}