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by brynbryn 926 days ago
Ahh, people are trying to do a replacement before finding tokens. I wondered why so many people were saying this was difficult. My head went straight to token parsing, which given the limited set of tokens made it trivial. Thought I was missing something
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I think people with understanding of compilers always want to model their code as DSL, and that makes it easier to go for backwards scanning.