John Haugeland

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Thank you

For reference, two years later, I'm still not on CDNjs :(

I believe this to be Windows specific. Several of the attached issues have people saying they can repro on Windows but not on Mac. ``` john@DESKTOP-26H4050 MINGW64 ~/projects/jssm (main) $...

I'm also happy to provide debug dumps or whatever; this isn't a high security machine. I just don't know how to under deno. Kind of a noob

It's a generated parser output that works fine in Netscape Navigator 4 from 1994. The parser generator in question has been dead for nine years. "Refactoring" is not an option....

Thank you for taking the time to look into this, and being willing to discuss. If necessary, I suppose I could fork the dead tool and manually test it then...

I would also note that as I understand it, you are an implementation of v8, and v8 has supported this specific parser in its older incarnations for more than ten...

> as while somewhat incredible, there are clearly instances of >250 nested if statements in the wild this is actually very common with non-lens parser generators in essentially every language....

direct-compile regular expression engines that aren't advanced enough to be finite state machines also very frequently take this strategy this is also how github's highlighting stuff works, so we're using...