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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Why haven't custom parsers become more of a thing? All the compiler or interpreter really needs is a valid parse tree. You could even have some kind of special command or directive to switch styles, if a section would be really ugly otherwise.