• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 hours ago

    Losing formatting other than what you’ve set in your deparser would be the point. Losing comments would be bad, but that seems easily fixable just by giving each comment block a symbol that points to it’s contents.

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      33 minutes ago

      Or by including comments in the parse tree. (& Yes, it is done various places for various languages and formats.)