You might want to check chromatic's comment on this subject in this comment tree (he has written, amongst other things, my favorite Perl book and hence has gone

You might want to check chromatic's comment on this subject in this comment tree (he has written, amongst other things, my favorite Perl book and hence has gone over these subjects carefully). He argues the halting problem for the parser is only an academic problem. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6163283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6163283