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> ... if it doesn't do full recognition of your input before you do any processing then you're likely boned.

There are languages where you need to process some of what you've done before a later part of the source can be dis-ambiguated. How does that sit with what you've said here?

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The argument that langsec.org makes is that any such languages are missing security properties. In fact they regard most ad-hoc languages as insecure due to the lack of verification, which they believe to be the root cause of many security problems.

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