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...@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ But JS complicates this because delimiters can appear inside ...@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ But JS complicates this because delimiters can appear inside
of a regex literal and deciding if `/` is the start of a of a regex literal and deciding if `/` is the start of a
regex or the division operator depends on parsing context. regex or the division operator depends on parsing context.
The read algorithm follows but see also the DLS 14 [paper](https://github.com/mozilla/sweet.js/blob/master/doc/dls2014/sweetjs.pdf?raw=true) which goes into more detail.
### Give lookbehind to the reader ### Give lookbehind to the reader
So to handle the problem of `/` we can use "almost one" lookbehind to So to handle the problem of `/` we can use "almost one" lookbehind to
...@@ -463,4 +465,3 @@ Useful papers on macros: ...@@ -463,4 +465,3 @@ Useful papers on macros:
* Refining Syntactic Sugar: Tools for Supporting Macro Development * Refining Syntactic Sugar: Tools for Supporting Macro Development
* Fortifying Macros * Fortifying Macros
* Composable and Compilable Macros * Composable and Compilable Macros