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barrkel on Aug 13, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof

And syntax highlighting normally only requires lexical analysis, not syntactic analysis.

alxv on Aug 13, 2009 [–]

Conversely, automatic indentation requires syntactic analysis.

barrkel on Aug 15, 2009 | [–]

However, most pretty printers only perform lexical analysis.

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