# Complex Grammar/Global State

> The degree to which forbidding backtracking makes complex grammars or global-state logic hard to express.

Record: `lex:complex-grammar-global-state`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-complex-grammar-global-state

## category

- [Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/streaming-pipeline-dataflow-processing.md)

## referenced-by

- [Forward-Only Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/forward-only-processing.md)