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It is quite possible to redifine much of the syntax with the cpp. Parsing without the cpp is hopeless. My favourite is Bourne's longing for Algol: https://minn

• pfdietz 5y ago
  Of course parsing without cpp is, in general, hopeless. But for something like a structure-aware editor you don't need to parse it perfectly, just "good enough". Ditto for a source-to-source transformation system.