Yikes! 11K lines is a lot. I guess my conclusion is the same as last time: human brains are good at parsing very elaborate languages. People like all that su

Yikes! 11K lines is a lot. I guess my conclusion is the same as last time: human brains are good at parsing very elaborate languages. People like all that subtle "expressiveness". I think my bash parser is pretty complete, and it's about 4K lines in Python now, including the lexer. Changing it to the lossless syntax tree vs AST blew it up by a few hundred lines. However, it does more than the 6K lines in bash's parse.y, because it parses in a single pass. Bash does more parsing in the 9700 line file subst.c, so it's hard to count. But yeah I'm about to write my Oil parser now, as opposed to the OSH parser... I really want to avoid writing another 4K lines of code!!! That might be the most practical way though. :-( http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/05.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/05.html