[Doc-SIG] looking for prior art

[Michael Hudson]

Doug Hellmann <doug@hellfly.net> writes:

> If you're starting from scratch, I would definitely recommend trying the 
> compiler module first.

Amen.

[...]
> Does compiler include comments? 

No.  tokenize.py does, though.

I don't know how hard it would be to turn the output of tokenize.py
into something like the output of compiler/transformer.py, but with
comments.  SPARK may be your friend...

Cheers,
M.

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