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Re: [C++ Patch] PR 37087


Paolo Carlini wrote:

My point, inspired by this PR of course, was essentially that every time we have a permerror we don't know if an error occurs or not, I would say the front-end becomes a tad more complex, because must tolerate rather special situations (so special that are errors by default) and proceed anyway.

Absolutely true.


As I've mentioned previously on the list, I think that we (meaning I) was far too casual about backwards-compatibility in the past. Some of the changes I made were necessary; there really was no practical way to maintain full compatibility between the old and new parsers, for example. But, I think we have to have some of this kind of complexity in order to best serve our users.

Thanks,

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