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Nice to see they've written the parser from scratch rather than some BISON and FLEX construct that generates impenetrable code.

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Just like with any generated code, you are not supposed to read the code bison and flex generate (except maybe if you are a flex/bison developer). 'Impenetrable' is neither an advantage nor a disadvantage of generated code.

Do you often read the output of some library macros that the C pre-compiler generates?

> Do you often read the output of some library macros that the C pre-compiler generates?

I do when they have bugs in them. :(

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