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A few disclaimers are necessary there... (Score:2)

by merlyn (47)
100% "Round Trip" safety

... provided you don't change the document in any way, like perhaps "strip comments" or anything that is not the NULL transformation.
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.
Although it took a new definition of "parse", perl is now no longer the only thing that can parse Perl.

I know you're hinting at it with your definition of "parse" caveat there, but I think it deserves a better
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- Randal L. Schwartz
- Stonehenge
- Re:A few disclaimers are necessary there... (Score:1)
  
  by sheriff_p (1577)
  
  Randal, Why are you so overwhelmingly negative about this project? It looks a bit petulant. +Pete
  - Re:A few disclaimers are necessary there... (Score:1)
    
    by Alias (5735) on 2005.07.13 21:01 (#41907) Homepage Journal
    
    Well, except that perl can't parse Perl either.
    
    This is no Perl.
    
    (But more on that at the OSCON talk) :)
    
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