<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> Imho, this is the unsolved mystery of comp sci. A machine follows syntax rules exactly and is incapable of executing if the scope, etc, is unclear. Humans read code that his hopelessly unparsable by a machine (the signs are correct but have fuzzy parsing rules) (or wrong*) and a human can immediately figure out what was intended. If a human brain can do that, then why not a parser.</p><p>* I can read English with a missing "not" and still understand what they intended, usually.</p>
