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package com.intellij.lang.pratt;

import com.intellij.psi.tree.IElementType;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * @author peter
 */
public abstract class ReducingParser extends TokenParser{
  @Override
  public final boolean parseToken(final PrattBuilder builder) {
    builder.advance();
    final IElementType type = parseFurther(builder);
    if (type == null) return false;

    builder.reduce(type);
    return true;
  }

  @Nullable public abstract IElementType parseFurther(final PrattBuilder builder);
}