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> You overstate my position. I don't want context-free; I > love Perl's context-sensitive nature. But it should be > easy enough to parse that other parsers could be written > without too much trouble. As it stands now, it's IMPOSSIBLE. Which is why we make ours the Right Way, and they can just use it (or a slightly modified form of it). Give it a file (or group of files), it gives you a parse tree.... well okay. For syntax highlighting they would definately have to go for the modified version, but still. --Brock