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This has some real promise. Congrats! Are you planning to parse PHP?

> This has some real promise. Congrats!

Thanks!

> Are you planning to parse PHP?

Sure, more languages are on the way! The problem with PHP, however, is that when it is used in a HTML page as template language, you can't get much from it. On the other side, when it is a simple class file with no HTML markup, things should work as with any other language.

When it's used as a HTML page with interspersed PHP, you just convert the HTML to strings. Look at the phc parser (http://phpcompiler.org). You can definitely get good static analysis info (I wrote the phc static analyser).

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