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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/05/14 21:47, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:

> That said, I think that *if* the sexp reader can traverse automatically
> a generic sexp (without having a grammar, only tokenising) we could
> decide that it could 'skip' each subexpression starting with an unknown
> token. Maybe with warnings:D

I would have thought this would exactly be done at the end of 
tokenisation - this is when the current parser says "erk, i expected one 
of 'fp_line', 'pad', ...., I give up now, no footprint for you". 
Instead, what it could do is go, "hmm, don't know what this is, I'll 
keep this bit - up to the matching paren - for later in case we save it 
back, and move on".

Cheers,

John