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Hi

Sourcefilter are notorious because only Perl can parse Perl, so attempts to manipulate embedded Perl code is doomed.

BUT

Did anyone ever attempt to parse and translate a different language with easily defined consistently specified syntax?

Like JS or LISP or a pedantic Perl sub dialect?¹

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

¹) or Perl6, Ruby or Python provided that they have such a pedantic syntax (?).

updates

  • maybe better forget I mentioned Ruby -> how-to-parse-ruby

  • corrected typo hdb++