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packrat

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Editorial note

The packrat feature pretty much addressed this issue, so dropbox with packrat WAS a backup solution.

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Quick take

Alternative form of pack rat. [Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.]

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of packrat gathered in one view.

noun

Alternative form of pack rat. [Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.]

verb

(colloquial, ambitransitive) To hoard things.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for packrat.

Example sentences

1

The packrat feature pretty much addressed this issue, so dropbox with packrat WAS a backup solution.

2

Then you'd lower it down into the trivial Packrat building blocks - still a tree.

3

PEGs were coined by Bryan Ford, who then coined packrat parsing based on them.

4

It is a shame that they don't offer the unlimited packrat option anymore.

5

Both are based in Bryan Ford's packrat (PEG is Ford's too).

6

I used to entirely use hand-written recursive-descent parsers, until I discovered packrat style parsers.

7

Only if you have a strong packrat or nesting instinct.

8

I kind of really dislike the tendency to conflate PEG and packrat parsing.

9

You mostly need left recursion for the binary expressions, and they are much better served by a Pratt parsing (which is trivial to mix with Packrat anyway).

10

I use packrat - so the files they suggest that I might have had deleted were recoverable (though none of them were an error).

11

Are all of Alamofire/PackRat/Gowalla defunct now?

12

I have all photos in dropbox with packrat feature.

Quote examples

1

They were "lost" around 8 months ago, so "packrat" didn't save me at all.

2

So I have my "important" stuff in a Dropbox account with "packrat" enabled for infinite history.

3

I have been using the "packrat" feature for more than a year, and Dropbox sent me a similar notification today to tell me they lost several thousand files, 816 could not been restored.

Proper noun examples

1

Packrat parsing is not a required feature of PEGs, and many of them don't use it.

2

You can also mix PEG (Packrat) with Pratt in an interesting way.

3

I've been writing and using recursive descent parsers a little lately, both Parsec-style and Packrat-style.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use packrat in a sentence?

The packrat feature pretty much addressed this issue, so dropbox with packrat WAS a backup solution.

What does packrat mean?

Alternative form of pack rat. [Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.]

What part of speech is packrat?

packrat is commonly used as noun, verb.