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A few disclaimers are necessary there... (Score:2)
If you do any transformation, you will not know that you've misparsed. You'll simply get the wrong result, and you will damage code.
I know you're hinting at it with your definition of "parse" caveat there, but I think it deserves a better
Re:A few disclaimers are necessary there... (Score:1)
>... provided you don't change the document in any >way, like perhaps "strip comments" or anything that >is not the NULL transformation.
And BTW, so I don't have to explain this again, the definition of "Round Trip" is that if you don't change a piece of code, it comes out the same as it went in, the entire point is that you don't change the document.
PPI can do this, unlike every other attempt at a perl-based "parser" that I've seen.
B:: is more of an attempt to create a bytecode serializer that a Perl parser.
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