| 1 | ## Parser Streams
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| 3 | file contents -> extracted comments
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| 5 | Parser streams receive the content returned by input streams and extract
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| 6 | JSDoc comments. The `javascript` stream goes further and also extracts
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| 7 | the [abstract syntax tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree)
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| 8 | of JavaScript source code in order to help `documentation` infer things
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| 9 | about the source code's structure, like the naming of variables.
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