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nazar
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Can it compile itself then?
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cfdrake
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It's only a parser - it just transforms plain source code into an abstract syntax tree representation. However, if you wanted to, you could use this tree for a variety of things - including translating and generating compiled code.
alexpak
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It's not a compiler, just a syntactic parser.
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