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Hilariously no attempts seem to be made to actually sort this out at the language level. Context free grammar anyone?

Fear of breaking backwards compatibility is what slowly kills languages eventually. As long as every new version needs to be backwards compaitbile you can only add and deprecate, never remove and fix.




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