On Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 20:25:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 21:25:52 Timon Gehr wrote:
FWIW, this is what most HTML parsers are doing.
Which is horrible. You pretty much have to with HTML because of
the horrid
decision that it should be parsed so laxly by browsers, but
pretty much
nothing else should do that. Either it's correct or it's not.
Having the
compiler "fix" your code would cause far more problems that it
would ever fix.
Not having control over parser or source code causes problems.
Ability to deliver useful functionality (see my post above) is a
different use case.
