Work on the strict first... get it universal. Once it's refined, add optional graceful handling of aberrations... eventually make it able to sort any garbage to be included and ignored, or discarded.
For instance if I wanted to take an ABC file written in another program and including codes for rendering inside, and wanted to run it through an editor I created that forced the ABC standard and helped me write good ABC, and then take it back to the originating program, I would not want to loose the work I'd done to lay it out... I'd have that _and_ a more syntactically correct source.
Richard Walker wrote:
<abc is hard to parse because it has grown and been extended by people who write it without worrying about how computers will deal with it.>
Seems like a parser should only deal with what is the current standard.
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